French language Quote by Graham Robb

“Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity…

— Guy Deutscher

“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

“The more children focused on messages with a real-life purpose, rather than on, say, repetitive grammar drills or artificial dialogues, the more French they…

— James Crawford

“...a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn…

— Henry Fielding

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

— Steve Martin

“French parents don't worry that they're going to damage their kids by frustrating them. To the contrary, they think their kids will be damaged…

— Pamela Druckerman

“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.”

— Melissa Wiley

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try…

— Edward Hopper

I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.

— Marcel Duchamp

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole…

— John Muir

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French…

— Lauren Willig

“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