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I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!


Amanda Seyfried


#french #glamorous #i #live #love

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.


Robert Sheckley


#belong #fad #french #i #like

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.


Gordon Sinclair


#british #dollar #ever #exchanges #french

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.


Edward Sapir


#diplomacy #english #french #international #international language

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.


Edward Sapir


#character #french #german #grammatical #illustrate

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.


Edward Sapir


#appearances #apply #contrary #could #english

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.


Lytton Strachey


#contrary #descended #direction #french #french language

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.


Lytton Strachey


#came #civilization #evolved #existence #french

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.


Lytton Strachey


#every #exceptions #few #french #latin

Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie, Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie, Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n’a point de loi Translated: Breath against breath warms my life. A thousand kisses give me I pray thee. Love says it all without number, love knows no law.


Pierre de Ronsard


#love #poetry #life