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- In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence.… — George Polya
- I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so… — Unknown Author
- I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. — Oscar Wilde
- The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity,… — Lytton Strachey
- A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
- You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more… — Bernard Pivot
- In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret,… — Walter Abish
- Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter… — Robert Fitzgerald
- I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. — Francois Hollande
- To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is… — Florence King
- Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it. — Maurice Druon