Citations:parlez vous


 * 1817, Christopher Kelly, A Full and Circumstantial Account of the Memorable Battle of Waterloo: the Second Restoration of Louis XVIII; and the Deportation of Napoleon Buonaparte to the Island of St. Helena, T. Kelly, page 289
 * They could fight, but they could not parlez vous;
 * But the fields were green, and the sky was blue
 * 1861, Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society, volume XXI, New York State Agricultural Society, page 340
 * our wives and our daughters deemed it more creditable to spin and weave, to sew and knit, than to “parlez vous francais,” or to thumb the piano.
 * 1885, W. Harlan Cord, A Knight Templar Abroad, J. Burns Publishing Co., page 8
 * Tom Hood’s Wholesome Advice to all Tourists who do not Parlez vous Francais
 * 1901, Dr. Walter Lindley et al. (editors), Southern California Practitioner, Stoll & Thayer, page 193
 * There are lots of them, thousands of them, who can ‘parlez vous Francais,’ and who also have it in their power to hammer on the piano.
 * 1916, Annual Convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, page 53
 * They could not parlez-vous French with the Frenchmen, neither could the Frenchmen talk English with them, and they certainly were homesick.
 * 1917, Will Hart, “When Yankee Doodle Learns To Parlez Vous Francais”, A.J. Stasny Music Co.
 * 1980, Billy Joel, “Don’t Ask Me Why”, Columbia Records
 * Now your ghosts have gone away Now you, “parlez vous francais”
 * 1989, Dario Fo et al., Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman, Samuel French (publisher), ISBN 0573691363, page 39
 * Mama Zaza: It's useless to parlez-vous francais. Understand I do it quite well, magnificent lady mine.
 * 1992 Martin Gilbert, Churchill, Macmillan, ISBN 0805023968, page 31
 * You have very much to be thankful for, if only you consider, & fancy how nice it will be to be able to parlez vous francais.
 * 1996, Michla Pomerance, The United States and the World Court as a "Supreme Court of the Nations", Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, ISBN 9041102043, page 128
 * I do not ‘parlez-vous Francais!’ I am not linguist enough to pronounce the names of some of these foreigners
 * 2006, Patrick Agte, Michael Wittmann and the Waffen SS Tiger commanders of the Leibstandarte in World War II, Stackpole Books, ISBN 0811733351
 * We climbed out and had a chat as well as we could ‘parlez vous français.’


 * 1808, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme et al., Sketches of Character: or, Specimens of Real Life, volume II, Mills & Co. St. Augustine’s-Back, page 131
 * “Lawks!” cried Miss Grimshaw, “d’ye hear’em parlez vousing?”
 * 1837, James Fenimore Cooper, Gleanings in Europe, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, volume II, page 17
 * Well, here have I been parlez-vousing to you in a way to surprise you, no doubt; but these Frenchmen have got my tongue so set to their lingo
 * 1843, Horace Smith, Adam Brown, the Merchant, H. Colburn, page 204
 * “Come, come,” cried Brown peevishly, “don’t stand there parlez-vousing, but bustle about and have a good fire in the yellow room, and get her to bed as fast as you can.”
 * 1857, Catherine Grace F. Gore, Preferment: or, My Uncle the Earl, page 186
 * “How glad am I those cursed parlez-vousing fellows are going away to-morrow,” whispered Lord Holwell to Julius
 * 1864, Henry Mayhew, German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present Day, W.H. Allen & Co.
 * all as a grown man like myself can say, after he has been a year or so in the country, is ‘guten Tar’and ‘calf’s flesh’—for that’s about the extent of my parlez-vousing.
 * 1871, Hamilton Aïdé, In That State of Life, B. Tauchnitz, page 139
 * all this parlez-vousing, and writing of her mistress’s letters, inspired Ms. Rouse with a mortal hatred and mistrust of the girl
 * 1891, Fances Ann Kemble, Further Records, 1848-1883, A Series of Letters, H. Holt and Company, page 295
 * so indignant was she at the interlopement (that’s the reverse of elopement, isn’t it?) of the parlez-vousing biped in our preserves
 * 1917, Lawrence Byrne, The American Ambassador, Scribner, page 49
 * No parlez-vousing around me. I speak only American and it’s good enough for anybody.


 * 1877, Alexander Hay Japp, Thoreau: His Life and Aims, J. R. Osgood, page 87
 * While my companions smoked a pipe and parlez-voused with one party, I parlezed and gesticulated with another.
 * 1908, Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff, Isle of Wight, A. and C. Black, page 68
 * then, by the way he and his valet parlez-voused to each other before my face, I soon got the suspicion they were not master and servant.