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The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to…

— Ralph Barton Perry

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

— Wilfrid Sheed

Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don't begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In…

— Monty Don

You have the intelligence front and the engagement front. On the intelligence front, the French are better than many of their European counterparts. But…

— Michael Leiter

I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think…

— Jonathan Meades

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

— Sophie Marceau

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,…

— Bernard Pivot

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a…

— Robert Morley

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of…

— Bernard Pivot

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

— Simon Baker

“No;—nobody in England ever is taught anything but Latin and Greek,—with this singular result, that after ten or a dozen years of learning not…

— Anthony Trollope

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

— Kristin Scott Thomas