French Quotes
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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
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The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
Paul Krugman
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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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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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Basically the French are all peasants.
Pablo Picasso
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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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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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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 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 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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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 didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
Etel Adnan
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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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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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I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'
Eva Green
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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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Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.
Abdellah Taia
