15 Esperanto Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous esperanto quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational esperanto quotes. Hopefully, these esperanto quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your esperanto knowledge!

I can speak Esperanto like a native. - Spike Milligan quote

I can speak Esperanto like a native. — Spike Milligan

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. — Fredrik Bajer

My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.' — J. R. R. Tolkien

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with. — George Soros

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. — Richard Bach

Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by. — Nick Hornby

I'd say I dream in Esperanto. Sometimes I remember some dreams in another language, but dreaming in languages no, but figures yes, my psychology is this way. — Pope Francis

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto. — Joe Hill

In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short. — John Lanchester

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. — Richard Bach

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud. — George Steiner

I did a movie in Esperanto. — William Shatner

When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up. — Allen Lacy

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto? — Arika Okrent

It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends. — J. R. R. Tolkien

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