| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 35240 |
| QUOTATION: | Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John le Carré (b. 1931), British novelist. Roper, in The Night Manager, ch. 16, Alfred A. Knopf (1993). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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