The only French I know is a kiss. I studied a lot of that…

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of…

— Bernard Pivot

The best designers are French - we all know that. That's a fact, I'm not inventing anything.

— Maryse Mizanin

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.

— Ewan McGregor

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never…

— Monique Truong

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

— Virginia Woolf

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never…

— Monique Truong

She is written in a foreign tongue.

— Henry James

“Mrs. Scamler,’ she said, ‘do you study French, ma'am?’ ‘I do, indeed,’ I said; ‘two hours a day.’ ‘Then, ma’am,’ she says, ‘we call…

— John Davidson

I'm French, I know how to cook.

— Dominique Crenn

“As the French know well, ritual is how we give meaning to different aspects of being alive, including the most elemental: birth, marriage, death,…

— Mireille Guiliano

If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me,…

— Vincent Cassel

“The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

— Madeleine L'Engle