French English Quotes
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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
To the moon and back, English.
— Kitty French
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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
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
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 Englishbut 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
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
An English speaker who has never studied French already knows around 15,000 French words!
— Laura K. Lawless
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
— Umberto Eco
I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
— Sean Connery
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
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
— Tatiana Maslany
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
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
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.
— Charles Lamb
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
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
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.
— Harry Caray
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 thingturn your toes out when you walk
And remember who you are! — Lewis Carroll
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
— Victor Hugo
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
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
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
— Marlene Dietrich
There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
— Chaim Weizmann
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
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
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
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
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that ofthe 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
