"If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak…" — Wilfrid Sheed

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

— Wilfrid Sheed

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26 Quotes by Wilfrid Sheed

Wilfrid Sheed has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back…
The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have…
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for…
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.
The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.
Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't…
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing…
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam…

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More English Quotes

This quote is filed under English Quotes, one of 2,324 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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