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You write to me that it's impossible. The word is not French. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

(optimisme itself was a word that first entered the French language in the eighteenth century). — Kenan Malik

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

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda ... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. — Marshall McLuhan

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

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats. — Menachem Begin

Because he's just so, so," Peter paused looking for the right word, "so French! — Jack Lewis Baillot

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur. — George H. W. Bush

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. — Alan Perlis

In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy. — Marilyn French

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

Badass with a hint of lady. — Belle Aurora

Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word. — Barry Davies

The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur — George W. Bush

Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat — David Sedaris

The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you. — Jim Lynch

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse. — Thomas Bulfinch

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. — James Beard

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

Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ... — Muse

Millions of stars overhead make the violence of the Big Bang clear. So much force that matter is still sprinting away from the center. I — Samantha Hunt

The word mortgage originates in French. it literally means 'death grip'. — Michael McGirr

Sam's a - pardon my French - chicken-shit-paper-thin liar whose word is as good as a slaughterhouse bird promising golden eggs." If — Anne McAneny

A family is a messy unwieldy thing bounded only by blood andbeneath all the embarrassmentaffection. — Priya Parmar

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'. — Christopher Lee

I always thought there was something French about her, ever since the word 'insouciance' flitted across the surface of my mind the first time we met. — Jessica Pine

Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.' — Tom Robbins

Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me — Jim Henson

Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything. — Steve Martin

What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It's such a bother that it must be masculine. — Libba Bray

I meant every word of it, Dylan Day. Lie to me and I'll cut your cock off and pickle it. — Kitty French

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once. — Niki Taylor

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey