Quote by Jacques Barzun

I don't think I can repeat any of the French words I know on camera, to be honest.

— Ollie Watkins

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

— Steve Martin

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

— Lytton Strachey

“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

En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.

— Sydney Samuelson

“Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées." ("It's not the…

— George Sand

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

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi,"…

— Emily Post

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age…

— Vivien Leigh

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

— Meg Cabot

The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur

— George W. Bush

I know the French mentality.

— Nicolas Anelka