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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

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

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

(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

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

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

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

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

I will love you, my English rose, and you will fill my French dreams — Melissa De La Cruz

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

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English. — Casey Stengel

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English. — Meta Golding

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school. — Tatiana Maslany

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

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

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

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

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

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian. — Izabel Goulart

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

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

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

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais. — Corneille Ewango

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

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

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