"To speak robin to a robin is like……" — Frances Hodgson Burnett
"To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman"
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94 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come!…
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Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So…
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One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is…
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The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was…
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On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug;…
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As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is…
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The air was full of spices... A Little Princess
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Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be…
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Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
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To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet…
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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because…
— Josephine Baker
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There is a certain dignity to being French.
— Brigitte Bardot
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
— Dave Barry
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As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each…
— Mario Batali
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took…
— Kate Beckinsale
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In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
— Jose Bergamin
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
— Juliette Binoche
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Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it…
— Juliette Binoche
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