French Quotes
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I like to provoke. I'm very French.
Carine Roitfeld -
These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!
Oprah Winfrey
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the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
Alice B. Toklas -
Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
Willa Cather -
The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
Paul Krugman -
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.
Fernand Braudel -
French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
Ali Abdullah Saleh -
I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.
Alice B. Toklas
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The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties.
Fernand Braudel -
The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.
Asia Argento -
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.
Will Ferguson -
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then a river, though I've scarcely heard them in half a century.
Pam Jenoff -
With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.
Will Ferguson -
There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.
Pranab Mukherjee -
I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
Courteney Cox -
Basically the French are all peasants.
Pablo Picasso -
You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is French, people.
Conan O'Brien
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The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you.
Amy Poehler -
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.
Keith Floyd -
The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.
Cardinal Mazarin -
My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon