Affected Quote by Camille Paglia

“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we…

— Stephen Fry

We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now…

— Camille Paglia

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

— Pamela Druckerman

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,…

— Bernard Pivot

Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don't begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In…

— Monty Don

I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it - to a…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.

— Ian Shoales

French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting…

— Pamela Druckerman

French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the…

— Peter Medawar

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government…

— Pamela Druckerman

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those…

— Mark Twain