French Quotes
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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
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The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.
Cardinal Mazarin
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Basically the French are all peasants.
Pablo Picasso
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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
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I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon
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My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I think my English gets worse. It's a tough language for the French, we phrase things completely different.
Claude Lelouch
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I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
Etel Adnan -
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
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
Wilhelm Steinitz
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There's something Vichy about the French.
Ivor Novello
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The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I was born with was French: D'Orsay; perhaps an ancestor was amongst those troops that marched to this evocative anthem for the first time as they entered Paris 200 years ago!
Engelbert Humperdinck
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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
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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
Wilfred Burchett
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Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.
Barry Davies
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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
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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
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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
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
Wilfrid Sheed