French Quotes
-
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn -
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
Eva Green
-
Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home." "Is everything going to be all right?" "Yes." "Tell me. Say it." "Everything is going to be all right.
Walker Percy -
I love the French horn.
Vanessa Williams -
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
Victor Hugo -
I love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.
Vincent Cassel -
No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.
Jean Chretien
-
Who buys French cars? Not me.
Karl Lagerfeld -
If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
Vincent Cassel -
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
Carine Roitfeld -
One can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of a pure regard for truth,” wrote French philosopher, activist, and mystic Simone Weil. “Christ likes for us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.
James Hal Cone
-
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen -
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.
Zoe Saldana -
My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.
Ewan McGregor -
'Entrepreneur' is a French word.
Xavier Niel
-
Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.
Ursula Dubosarsky -
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
Oscar Wilde -
I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.
Jack Roy -
I like to provoke. I'm very French.
Carine Roitfeld