Death Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray

“On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners I learned…

— David Sedaris

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

“A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the…

— Michael G. Kramer

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

— Theodore Zeldin

“Proximity to this death makes me nostalgic for the French language.”

— Henri Cole

There's always something fishy about the French.

— Noel Coward

I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is…

— Xiaolu Guo

In the last scene, between death and ourselves, there is no more pretending: we must speak plain French.

— Anonymous

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

— Mark Twain

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

— Pamela Druckerman

“Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their…

— Mark Twain