French Quotes · Page 13

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

— Glenn Danzig

“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”

— Gustave Flaubert

The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.

— Pamela Druckerman

All my life, I have juggled two cultures: Senegalese and French.

— Maimouna Doucoure

I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand.

— Eric Schlosser

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

— Anonymous

I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.

— Alain Ducasse

“You’ll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.” Hmm, maybe I don’t want to learn French”

— Stephanie Perkins

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes,…

— Carine Roitfeld

I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new…

— Sophie Hannah

When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose…

— Susie Dent

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of…

— Conrad Black

Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didnt…

— Delphine Arnault

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the…

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to…

— Lou Doillon

I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s…

— Dita Von Teese

“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you…

— Edith Head

“Winslow wants you to learn this"- he waved a few sheets of stapled pages- "and that." He pointed to the book in…

— Melissa Jensen

Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of…

— Elliott Abrams

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or…

— Jessye Norman

I've learned from my French husband and the way they eat, it's all about moderation. And that's really sustainable.

— Kim Raver

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

This holiday has made me acutely aware I've never knowingly spoken to a French person.

— Anonymous

“If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.”

— Rachel L. Demeter

I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want…

— Margaret Trudeau

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

— Carine Roitfeld

I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

— Carine Roitfeld

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

— Arthur Boyd

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

— Ethan Zuckerman

I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.

— David Chang

I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons.

— Kelly Wearstler

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

— Sophie Marceau

“He did just spell out the particulars of an incestuous menage a trois in the same breath he used to order wine.”

— Michelle Gable

I think it is never easy to play a quarterfinal against a French guy, you know.

— Gael Monfils

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult…

— Ewan McGregor

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

— Patrick White