Idiom Quote by Peter Medawar

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

— Bernard Pivot

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

— Pamela Druckerman

I know the French mentality.

— Nicolas Anelka

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

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

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their…

— Christina Stead

The French are very individualistic.

— Eric Rohmer

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

— Mads Mikkelsen

We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now…

— Camille Paglia

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all…

— Elie Wiesel

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

— John Dewey