中国人演讲或写作时都喜欢引经据典，尤其是引用名人名言，其实西方人也不例外。如果你和外国友人交谈时能够脱口而出几句英文经典名句，想必你在对方心中的形象会瞬间变得“高大上”起来。下面我们就来教大家一些有关英语和语言学习的名人名言：

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, it goes to his heart.—Nelson Mandela

如果你用一个人听得懂的语言与他交流，他会记在脑子里；如果你用他自己的语言与他交流，他会记在心里。——南非前总统尼尔逊·曼德拉

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.” – Edmund de Waal

通过语言，你可以从一个社会地位跳到另一个社会地位。通过语言，你可以到处安家。——艾德蒙大瓦尔（作家）

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.—Mark Twain

善良是一种聋子能听见、盲人能看见的语言。——美国喜剧作家马克·吐温

Language is wine upon the lips; The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.—Virginia Woolf

语言是唇上的美酒；我语言的局限意味着我天地的局限。——英国女作家伍尔芙

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.—Walt Whitman

纵观古今，英语语言是每一种方言、每一个种族和每一段时期的积累和增长，是所有这些内容最随意、却也是最紧凑的组合。——美国诗人惠特曼

The finest language is mostly made up of simple and unimposing words.—George Eliot

最美好的语言大部分是由简单和朴实的字词组成。——英国女作家乔治·艾略特

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.—Hippocrates

语言的主要优点在于其清晰度，而最有损此优点的就是使用不熟悉的字眼。——西方医学之父、古希腊著名医生希波克拉底

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.—Michael Gove

让孩子学习外语及外国文化，是拓展其同理心、设身处地的同情心以及文化视野的最佳方法。——英国现任教育大臣麦克·高夫