You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural. — Nancy Wake Copy Share Image
“Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.' - All my old loves will be returned to me” — Carolyn Turgeon Copy Share Image
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking. — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
“The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is… — Elizabeth Hawes Copy Share Image
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
“We'll start with Un Petite Flamme. It's our espresso macaron. Go on, try it." She looks down at her plate. "This one?… — Hannah Tunnicliffe Copy Share Image
“I know of no other place that is so fascinating yet so frustrating, so aware of the world and its own place… — Sarah Turnbull Copy Share Image
“Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“No;—nobody in England ever is taught anything but Latin and Greek,—with this singular result, that after ten or a dozen years of… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When I was in college at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied international relations and French, I studied abroad in Paris… — Stacey Bendet Copy Share Image
I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and,… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
