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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

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

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

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

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

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

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway. — Meg Cabot

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English. — Hector Hugh Munro

You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else. — John Fowles

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

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

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

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

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

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general. — George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece. — Stephanie Perkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

An English speaker who has never studied French already knows around 15,000 French words! — Laura K. Lawless

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

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

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 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

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

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

French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused. — Stephanie Perkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French. — Anna Held

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 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

Annoyance has made me bilingual. — Gayle Forman

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

Relax," he says, "You're with me. I'm practically French."
"You're English."
He grins. "I'm American. — Stephanie Perkins

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

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

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

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

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue. — Anne Rice