French Quotes
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Your blouse is whitening on the chair and your parrot Flaubert weeps in French: she left him, and he is sorry.
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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
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After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”
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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.
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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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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!
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The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
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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.
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The French are predictably unpredictable.
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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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Stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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We are American at puberty. We die French.
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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 French are very individualistic.
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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.
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The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.
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I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.
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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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I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.
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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."
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I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.
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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?
