Despicable Quote by John Dewey

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

— Wilfrid Sheed

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

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

— Meg Cabot

“Elio Vittorini observed in 1957 that ever since Napoleon, France had proved impermeable to any foreign influence except German philosophy: and that was still…

— Tony Judt

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

I know the French mentality.

— Nicolas Anelka

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is…

— Xiaolu Guo

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age…

— Vivien Leigh

“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we…

— Stephen Fry

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

— Casey Stengel