I am attracted by almost any French word - written or…

“I always thought there was something French about her, ever since the word 'insouciance' flitted across the surface of my mind the first time…

— Jessica Pine

“The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.”

— Stephanie Perkins

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

— Golda Meir

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but…

— Lawrence Block

'Griot' is a French word which means, you know, really, literally, 'cry.' You know, like the town crier. You know, they come in and…

— Amiri Baraka

Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'

— Tom Robbins

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does…

— Arsene Wenger

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

— George H. W. Bush

'Entrepreneur' is a French word.

— Xavier Niel

I like English football, Spanish football, Italian football. I like all of them.

— Hulk

I'm not very good at standard English.

— James Nesbitt

“A mí todo aquello me era insoportable, pues no estoy hecho de la madera de los que aguantan a los tontos con absoluta resignación.”

— T. Lobsang Rampa

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

— Aravind Adiga

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

— Kiersten White