Language Quote by Lionel Jospin

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

— Simon Baker

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

— Bernard Pivot

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

— Leon Wieseltier

I cannot prevent the French from being French

— Charles de Gaulle

Quebec can make french the only official language is spite of the constitution. Pierre Trudeau 1967

— Pierre Trudeau

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

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Meg Cabot

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

“highly codified and formal foreign language known as French – a language which, according to many French-speakers, almost no one speaks correctly. In the…

— Graham Robb