French Quotes

• Basically the French are all peasants.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • French
  • Peasants

• 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
  • Italians
  • World War I
  • Archenemy

• 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
  • Morning
  • Always
  • Happened

• I think my English gets worse. It's a tough language for the French, we phrase things completely different.

  

  Claude Lelouch
  • English
  • Language
  • Tough

• 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
  • Child
  • Writer
  • Talents

• There's something Vichy about the French.

  

  Ivor Novello
  • French

• Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

  

  Beverley Baxter
  • Food
  • Not Believe
  • Calories

• 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
  • Play
  • England
  • French

• 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
  • Women
  • Inspire
  • Irony

• 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
  • Up
  • Google
  • Version

• The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • French
  • Wiser
  • Seem

• We heard that girls who had left to get married were being deported with their husbands. A girl who had a love affair with a French prisoner was sent to a concentration camp, and the Frenchman was executed.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Prisoner
  • Get Married
  • Concentration Camp

• I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.

  

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Speak
  • German
  • Italian

• I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Played
  • Dullest
  • Openings

• 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
  • Artist
  • Craft
  • Masterpiece

• 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
  • Stories
  • Direction
  • Prisoner

• 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
  • Library
  • Growing Up
  • No Problem

• 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
  • Success
  • Model
  • French

• Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • I Love
  • Temptation
  • Fries

• The French courage proceeds from vanity...

  

  Lord Byron
  • Courage
  • Vanity
  • French

• I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

  Etel Adnan
  • Read
  • Rejection
  • Boycott

• 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
  • Different
  • Country
  • Movie

• 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
  • Children
  • Trouble
  • Leader

• I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

  

  Sean Connery
  • English
  • French
  • Reflects

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