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Let us be French as the Americans are English. — Henri Bourassa

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. — Maurice Druon

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. — Sophie Marceau

To the moon and back, English. — Kitty French

My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French. — Vladimir Nabokov

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. — Mark Twain

Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the English. — Stephen Clarke

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him. — Francis Parkman

My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory. — Kevin Brownlow

The English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. — M. E. W. Sherwood

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch. — Eva Green

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. — Karl Lagerfeld

Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian! — John A. Macdonald

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. — Gore Vidal

The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. — Louis XVIII Of France

English physicians kill you, the French let you die. — Charles Lamb

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? — Marlene Dietrich

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming. — Thomas Mars

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. — Wilfrid Laurier

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. — Norman Spinrad

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. — Kenneth Baker

Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English. — Glen Duncan

If the French army was defeated, it was impossible to imagine that the English would survive. — Charles Kaiser

He'd tried to talk to you about anarchy yesterday but his English and your French conspired against the dialog. — Ian Rankin

The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to the English novel and the French novel. — Virginia Woolf

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. — Alaina Huffman

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. — Mahatma Gandhi

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas! — Lydia Davis

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. — Victor Hugo

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African. — Sefi Atta

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing
turn your toes out when you walk
And remember who you are! — Lewis Carroll