Bunch Quote by John Ralston Saul

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

“It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly…

— Goldwin Smith

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for…

— Edward Sapir

“The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within…

— Mark Kurlansky

There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined…

— Michael Ignatieff

Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English,…

— Fulcher of Chartres

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

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale,…

— Patricia Hampl

... 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

The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is…

— Richard Cobden

The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers.

— Pauline Marois