Goals Quote by Luke Sullivan

“The French (and Europeans in general) place a high value on speaking quietly in restaurants and on trains.”

— Rick Steves

“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

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,…

— Bernard Pivot

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

— Meg Cabot

“When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in ‘normal’ French, as if the language they speak in…

— Stephen Clarke

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

In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who…

— Simon McBurney

“George W. Bush, the former US president, is reputed to have complained that the problem with the French is that they do not have…

— Ha-Joon Chang

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind…

— Camille Paglia

“The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.”

— Sheron Long

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

— Anonymous

“They were so posh that even their Dutch sounded French.”

— Stefan Hertmans