French Quotes
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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.
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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.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think my English gets worse. It's a tough language for the French, we phrase things completely different.
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Basically the French are all peasants.
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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.
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I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
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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.
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My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
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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.
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I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
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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!'
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Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
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Yet the heavier a person was—American or French—the more they relied on external cues to tell them when to stop eating and the less they relied on whether they felt full.13
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Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.
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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.
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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!
