#french

I never thought I could win the French Open. ↗

— Li Na

#french #french open #i #never #open

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#country #culture #english #find #french

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#cultivated #entry #feel #feeling #french

French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

#beautiful #been #bodies #confident #french

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#extraordinary #french #how #know #you

French was my first language. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#french #language

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#death #easy #first #french #hospital

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#french #inflicted #town #which #wounds

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#carried #first #french #grammar #greeks

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#fate #find #french #i #me