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I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years. — Gloria Gaither

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

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

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses. — Joely Richardson

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

(Claude and Marcel LeFever were speaking in French. This simultaneous English translation is being beamed to the reader via literary satellite.) — Tom Robbins

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

The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage. — John Green

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English
but are great in remembering signs — Karl Lagerfeld

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

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

In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English. — Rabih Alameddine

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans. — Tod Machover

Energy doesn't communicate in English, French, Chinese or Swahili, but it does speak clearly — Elaine Seiler

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish. — Antonio Munoz Molina

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me. — Sean Connery

There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America. — Chaim Weizmann

There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French. — Elizabeth Hawes

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys. — Joe Strummer

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time. — Gertrude Stein

I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English. — A. J. Jacobs

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world. — Miranda July

They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English. — Harry Caray

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

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

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 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

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

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