French Quotes

• If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

  

  Wilfrid Sheed
  • English
  • Intelligent
  • French

• 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

• The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

  

  Eric Rohmer
  • French
  • Difficulties
  • Alliances

• The French courage proceeds from vanity...

  

  Lord Byron
  • Courage
  • Vanity
  • French

• Your blouse is whitening on the chair and your parrot Flaubert weeps in French: she left him, and he is sorry.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Sorry
  • French
  • Parrot

• 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
  • Remember
  • French
  • Toes

• 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'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.

  

  Euny Hong
  • Humor
  • Variety
  • Illustrated

• 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
  • Destiny
  • French
  • Nationalism

• I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • English
  • Americans
  • French

• I don’t like water. I drink Diet Coke. Nor do I smoke, or drink alcohol or even sip a café. I don’t look after myself. I don’t do yoga, Pilates, those things. I hate physical effort, I don’t run anywhere, but I am super-energetic. Make-up? I just black my eyes and that’s it. My hair? I get it cut on set (fashion shoots), I never go to a hairdresser. I’m not sure I’m French. You think I’m not smart enough?

  

  Emmanuelle Alt
  • Water
  • Makeup
  • Yoga

• We are American at puberty. We die French.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • American
  • French
  • Puberty

• 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

  

  Brian Wansink
  • American
  • French
  • Heavier a person

• I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Learning
  • Enjoyed
  • French

• Any new French female acquaintance would most likely have held herself aloof, eyeing you suspiciously until she had assessed your character and whether or not you posed a threat.

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • You
  • Female
  • Aloof

• As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

  

  Harry Johnston
  • Trouble
  • French
  • Canadian severity

• 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
  • Learn
  • Speak
  • French

• The French are very individualistic.

  

  Eric Rohmer
  • French
  • Individualistic

• The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

  

  Bono U2
  • Notice
  • French

• She brought forth a piece of wood into which she had burned a French saying which our friend Franz had used to cheer us, in Osterburg: La vie est belle, et elle commence demain. “Life is beautiful, and it begins tomorrow."

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Friend
  • Life is
  • French

• The French are predictably unpredictable.

  

  Andrew Mehrtens
  • French
  • Unpredictable
  • Predictably

• French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

  

  Mireille Guiliano
  • Bread
  • French
  • Carbs

• 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
  • Understand
  • French
  • Interpret

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