“Speak in French when you can't think of English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and remember who you are!”
Lewis Carroll
“I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war.”
Golda Meir
“We barely speak French when we are together. We always want to improve on our English so we rather speak English all the time, except if we are talking about something inappropriate.”
Oumar Sylla
“I understand a little English from my days in Dallas. But when they speak French, I'm lost. Sometimes you wish you were in Texas.”
Elias Martinez
“When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France”
Charles Krauthammer
“When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken”
Winston Churchill
“If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English”
Wilfred Sheed