French Quotes
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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
Wilfred Burchett -
We are American at puberty. We die French.
Evelyn Waugh
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The French are predictably unpredictable.
Andrew Mehrtens -
I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
Sean Connery -
I think my English gets worse. It's a tough language for the French, we phrase things completely different.
Claude Lelouch -
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 -
It is the magic of nationalism to turn chance into destiny. With Debray we might say, 'Yes, it is quite accidental that I am born French; but after all, France is eternal.
Benedict Anderson -
In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.
Walter Abish
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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 -
Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, "empêtrés", I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.
Judith Butler -
The French are very individualistic.
Eric Rohmer -
I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.
Meta Golding -
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 -
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!
Lewis Carroll
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There's something Vichy about the French.
Ivor Novello -
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
Wilfrid Sheed -
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
Eric Rohmer -
The French courage proceeds from vanity...
Lord Byron -
I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.
Euny Hong -
Two heavyset, rough-looking men were arguing about politics, and he was struck anew by a thought he used to have often when he lived here: there is no such thing as a French tough guy. A French tough guy, even if he’s tough as nails, speaks French, and therefore isn’t very tough at all. These men looked like boxers, but they were speaking a feminine language and sipping daintily from tiny espresso cups. Schiller, six-foot-something and wide, always felt terribly manly in France, the land of fragile men.
Brian Morton
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I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
Etel Adnan -
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
Bill Gates -
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
John Locke Nazareth -
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!
Victor Hugo