Language quotes

“What we require now is a feat of linguistic legerdemain and a degree of intrepidity before the Captain and Dr. McCoy freeze to death.”
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“- Dr. Claw: Comprende?
- Inspector Gadget: Yeah, I comprende.
- Dr. Claw: No no no no no. I comprendo, yo comprendo. Conjugate the word, for pity's sake.”
Rupert Everett - Sanford Scolex
Matthew Broderick - Inspector Gadget

“Hey Sarge! You know how a Camacho's like a cue ball? Cause the harder you hit 'em, the better their English gets.”
Ron Dean - Brennan

“They don't want us to be really educated. If we learn in Afrikaans, we have no future!”

Bekhithemba Mpofu - Jonathan

“- Martin Riggs: Flied lice?
- Benny 'Uncle Benny' Chan: Flied lice? It's fried rice, you plick.”
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs
Kim Chan - Benny 'Uncle Benny' Chan

“The majesty and grandeur of the English language, it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative, and musical mixtures of sounds.”
Rex Harrison - Professor Henry Higgins

“- Wanda Gershwitz: Archie? Do you speak Italian?
- Archie Leach: I am Italian! Sono italiano in spirito. Ma ho sposato una donna che preferisce lavorare in giardino a fare l'amore appassionato. Uno sbaglio grande! But it's such an ugly language. How about... Russian?”
Jamie Lee Curtis - Wanda Gershwitz
John Marwood Cleese - Archie Leach

“I know a little German. He's sitting over there.”
Lucy Gutteridge - Hillary Flammond

“- Dorothy: Parliamo italiano?
- Gregory: No, not really. Just bella, bella.”

Dee Hepburn - Dorothy
John Gordon Sinclair - Gregory

“- Danny Costanzo: What the hell are we doing in Key West?
- Ray Hughes: It's as far south as we can go without having to speak Spanish.”
Billy Crystal - Danny Costanzo
Gregory Hines - Ray Hughes

“- Sam: Excuse me, could you tell me how to find the post office?
- Man with the Newspaper: Do I know you? No, I'm sorry, do I know you? Cause, how did you know I speak English?
- Sam: You got an English newspaper.”
Robert De Niro - Sam
Ron Perkins - Man with the Newspaper

“- Peter's News Editor: West, keep the British accent out of your prose. Don't take advantage of the fact that your uncle owns the paper.
- Peter West: As if I would.”
Lucio Fulci - Peter's News Editor
Ian McCulloch - Peter West

“- Mrs. Walsh: Pants and shirts go in the... oh, forget about it. Just throw everything into cardboard boxes. Clark, can you really translate all that?
- Mouth: For sure, Mrs. Walsh.
- Mouth: [in Spanish] The marijuana goes in the top drawer. The cocaine and speed go in the second drawer. And the heroin goes in the bottom drawer. Always separate...” (continue)(continue reading)

Mary Ellen Trainor - Mrs. Walsh
Corey Feldman - Mouth

“- Chris: Hi, Mrs. Sanchez. I'm Chris. We've come to pick up Vera.
- Mrs. Sanchez: She is not going!
- Chris: What are they saying?
- Debbie: I don't know. I flunked Spanish.”

Dana Kimmell - Chris
Perla Walter - Mrs. Sanchez
Tracie Savage - Debbie

- Chancellor Gorkon: You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
- General Chang: "Tah pagh, tah be?".
David Warner - Chancellor Gorkon
Christopher Plummer - Chang

“- Quentin Hapsburg: Que sera sera... You do speak French, don't you?
- Lt. Frank Drebin: Unfortunately no, but I do kiss that way.”
Robert Goulet - Quentin Hapsburg
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“- Count Dracula: There, you do understand.
- Lucy Seward: Not really. I have no idea what you said.
- Count Dracula: I said it would be nice to see you smile.”

Frank Langella - Dracula
Kate Nelligan - Lucy Westenra

“- Sedgwick 'Manufacturer': Danny, do you speak Russian?
- Danny 'Tunnel King': A little, but only one sentence.
- Sedgwick 'Manufacturer': Well, let me have it, mate.
- Danny 'Tunnel King': Ya vas lyublyu.
- Sedgwick 'Manufacturer': Ya ya vas...
- Danny 'Tunnel King': Lyublyu.
- Sedgwick 'Manufacturer': Lyubliu? Ya vas lyubliu. Ya vas lyublyu....” (continue)(continue reading)
James Coburn - Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
Charles Bronson - Danny 'Tunnel King'

Sic transit gloria mundi. "Thus passes the glory of the world".
Eric Blore - Bates

“- Isabel Fuentes: No. No quiero oir nada. No quiero que me digas una palabra. Estoy harto de todos tus mentiras. Esos son todos lo que me has dicho. Cobarde.
- Alex Whitman: What does that mean?
- Isabel Fuentes: It means that you are a liar and a coward. That's what it means.
- Alex Whitman: It sounded so much prettier in Spanish.”
Salma Hayek - Isabel Fuentes Whitman
Matthew Perry - Alex Whitman