Ifs Quote by Wilfrid Sheed Download Open image “If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.” — Wilfrid Sheed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Inspirational Intelligent Love Sarcasm Sarcastic Speak Speak english
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English. — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the… — Olivia de Havilland Copy Share Image
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine." — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
