Language quotes

- Colonel Race: What are you thinking?
- Hercule Poirot: I was thinking of Molière: "La grande ambition des femmes est d'inspirer l'amour".
- Colonel Race: I wish you'd speak some known language...
- Hercule Poirot: "The great ambition of women is to inspire love".
David Niven - Colonel Race
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot

“- Andre Marek: We're speaking the same language, but you don't understand a word I'm saying, do you?
- Lady Claire: No.”
Gerard Butler - Andre Marek
Anna Friel - Lady Claire

“- Miles Logan: Yo tengo el gato los pantalones.
- Carlson: You just said you have a cat in your pants.”
Martin Lawrence - Miles Logan

“- Emmett Fitz-Hume: What's she saying?
- Austin Millbarge: H... hair... hairbrush... headrest...
- Emmett Fitz-Hume: Jesus, where did you learn your Russian? JCPenney?”
Chevy Chase - Emmett Fitz-Hume
Dan Aykroyd - Austin Millbarge

“I do have one bit of advice for you though. Take the time in school to learn a foreign language.”
Luke Wilson - Anthony Adams

“Does anyone here speak English? Perfect! Either I'm in heaven or the Miami airport.”
Billy Crystal - Sam 'Sammy' Kamin

“A legal education means you will learn to speak in a new language. You will be taught to achieve insight into the world around you. And to sharply question what you know.”
Holland Taylor - Professor Stromwell

“I need a lift in your el tracko to the next towno.”

Brad Pitt - Jerry Welbach

“I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with.”
Lambert Wilson - Merovingian

“The blue hankie means blow-job. You have one hanging out of your left pants pocket means you want a blow-job. A blue in the right rear pocket is you give them. The green hankie in your right rear pocket means you're a hustler. The green hankie in your left rear means you're looking to buy. The yellow hankie in your left rear pocket means you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Powers Boothe - Hankie Salesman

“- Gordie Boggs: Buenos nachos!
- Sasha: I didn't know you spoke Spanish.
- Gordie Boggs: Yeah, I took it in high school... a bunch of times.
- Sasha: Are you fluent?
- Gordie Boggs: No, I feel fine.”
David Arquette - Gordie Boggs
Rose McGowan - Sasha

“He absorbed Latin yesterday in less than two hours. It took me a year just to learn the Latin alphabet.”
Pierce Brosnan - Dr. Lawrence Angelo

“I'm a Christian, Beck. I'm sure that seems like probably a joke to you, but I find your language personally offensive.”

William Forsythe - Arthur Kressler

“- Hercule Poirot: Mon Dieu, j'ai faim.
- Colonel Race: Poirot! You have a woman?
- Hercule Poirot: Not femme, faim! I am... peckish.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot
David Niven - Colonel Race

“- John Keating: Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is... Mr. Anderson? Come on, are you a man or an amoeba?
[Mr. Anderson stays silent]
- John Keating: Mr. Perry?
- Neil Perry: To communicate.
- John Keating: No! To woo women!”
Robin Williams - John Keating
Robert Sean Leonard - Neil Perry

“Zigzag. That means he wants to talk peace. You zigzag out to meet him.”
John Carradine - Porter Rockwell

- Nick Rivers: Martin, I've been practicing. How this? “Ist Ihr Tochter achtzehn, bitte?”.
- Martin: What does that mean?
- Nick Rivers: Is your daughter eighteen?
Val Kilmer - Nick Rivers
Billy J. Mitchell - Martin

“- Braun: French! English! How I hate those languages!
- Mueller: Calm yourself, my dear Braun. In a short time there will be only one language.”
Rudolph Anders - Braun
Paul Fix - Mueller

“- French Count: I hope they hang you in Tyburn for your bad French.
- Macleane: Merci Monsieur. I hope it rains every day of your fucking visit.”
Jacques Mathou - French Count
Jonny Lee Miller - Macleane

“- Mrs. Sherwood: These couple of pages I have are unintelligible.
- Leroy: Its a secret language, all right? It isn't meant for whiteys to understand!”
Anne Meara - Mrs. Sherwood
Gene Anthony Ray - Leroy

“- Farrell: Diction! Watch your diction, Ralph. You're slurring your words.
- Ralph: What? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Marlon Brando slurred his words, you know. Montgomery Cliff slurred his words. James Dean slurred his words. They were the greatest actors in the whole world and nobody could understand a word they said.”
Jim Moody - Farrell
Barry Miller - Ralph

“- Agent Brick Davis: You do speak Manderain, don't you?
- Corky Romano: Oh yes. I just didn't understand your accent. See, I was taught by an up scale family, Su Su Sudio.”
Matthew Glave - Agent Brick Davis
Chris Kattan - Corky Romano

“Do look. Oh, look! Look at that ridiculous American monstrosity they've given the child. What do they call them? Knickerbocker glories. Oh! It's amazing. They can even vulgarize ice cream.”
Maggie Smith - Lady Hester Random

“Come back with me to the States. Your English is good. You're studying to be a teacher. I've taught you all the best dirty words. You can tutor French and live with me.”
Miles Chapin - Joel

“Stinko de mayo!”

Rob Schneider - Jessica