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French was my first language. -- Bob Cousy
French is the language that turns dirt into romance. -- Stephen King
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. -- Sophie Marceau
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. -- Bernard Pivot
Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it. -- Maurice Druon
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. -- Wilfrid Laurier
My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it. -- Famke Janssen
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. -- Francois Hollande
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. -- Edith Piaf
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking. -- Robert Stack
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. -- Fabrice Luchini
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. -- Lionel Jospin
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. -- Amisha Patel
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. -- Aravind Adiga
I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French. -- Olga Kurylenko
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language. -- Juliana Hatfield
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
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. -- Mark Twain
French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway. -- Meg Cabot
I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language. -- Stephen King
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. -- Ernest Hemingway
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Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget. -- William W. Johnstone
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. -- Oscar Wilde
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? -- Marlene Dietrich
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. -- Mads Mikkelsen
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. -- Samuel Barnett
The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. -- Amos Oz
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. -- Jean-Jacques Annaud
I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta. -- Belva Plain
People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant. -- Bernard Pivot
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. -- Maurice Druon
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. -- Branford Marsalis
Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America. -- Jack Kerouac
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful. -- Paul Celan
I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead. -- P.D.Q. Bach
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us. -- Helen Vendler
My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well. -- Anthony Bourdain
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
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs. -- Pierre Schaeffer

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