French Quotes
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We were taught that the French were our archenemies, that the Italians were traitors, that Austria had lost the First World War only because of a “stab in the back”—but I must tell you, we were never sure who had done the stabbing.
Edith Hahn Beer -
I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.
Michael Graves
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon -
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.
Toussaint Louverture -
I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.
Elizabeth Wein -
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
Hector Hugh Munro -
Eleanor Roosevelt's very helpful to a lot of children who cannot speak French, who do not write well. And Marie Souvestre is fierce. She tears up students' papers that are not, you know, perfect. And Eleanor Roosevelt goes around, again, being incredibly helpful to children in need, children in trouble. And her best friends are the naughtiest girls who are in trouble. And she is a leader. And she is encouraged to be a leader. And everybody falls in love with her. She's a star.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
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After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”
Andrew Mehrtens -
I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.
Eugene Mirman -
The problem England have got is that if they don't win the group they will play the French and if they play them, they will be beaten.
Alan Hansen -
Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.
Barry Davies -
The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
Bono U2 -
As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.
Harry Johnston
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Your blouse is whitening on the chair and your parrot Flaubert weeps in French: she left him, and he is sorry.
Bel Kaufman -
Any new French female acquaintance would most likely have held herself aloof, eyeing you suspiciously until she had assessed your character and whether or not you posed a threat.
Catherine Sanderson -
We are doing exactly what we need to do to be successful in the social and economic transformation of the French model.
Bruno Le Maire -
Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie Souvestre really appreciated Eleanor Roosevelt's talents and encouraged her talents. Also, she spoke perfect French. She grew up speaking French. She's now at a french-speaking school where, you know, girls are coming from all over the world. Not everybody speaks French.
Blanche Wiesen Cook -
During my seven years in office, I was in love with seventeen million French women... I know this declaration will inspire irony and that English language readers will find it very French.
Valery Giscard d'Estaing -
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.
Beverley Baxter -
Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor -
The word impossible is not French.
Napoleon Bonaparte