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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

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

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here. — Arsene Wenger

To the moon and back, English. — Kitty French

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

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. — Cyril Cusack

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

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. — Wilfrid Sheed

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

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

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing. — Anthony Lane

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. — Robert Morgan

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain. — Helen Mirren

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. — Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

It is accepted science that God himself gave the French the gift of their cuisine, and while he was downstairs, cursed the English with theirs. — Christopher Moore

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

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other. — Umberto Eco

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

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

English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was the music from the streets. — Yann Martel

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

douleur, one of the many French words that do not translate into English well, which means "the pain of wanting someone you cannot have. — Martha Hall Kelly

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of
the air! — Thomas Carlyle

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

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 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

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

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?"
"Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors. — Dan Brown

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

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English. — Jane Birkin

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

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

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