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Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. -- Sophie Marceau
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. -- Wilfrid Laurier
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking. -- Robert Stack
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. -- Edith Piaf
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
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
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months. -- Cheech Marin
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
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
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 also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. -- Harry Mathews
In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it. -- Mireille Guiliano
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life. -- David Amram
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears. -- Mads Mikkelsen
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
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture. -- Bernard Pivot
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. -- Victor Hugo
I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language! -- Nathalie Emmanuel
French was my first language. -- Bob Cousy
French is the language that turns dirt into romance. -- Stephen King
I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language. -- Stephen King
French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway. -- Meg Cabot
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. -- Ernest Hemingway
Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it. -- Maurice Druon
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. -- Bernard Pivot
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
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. -- Fabrice Luchini
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If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. -- Lionel Jospin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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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