French Quotes
1316 quotes by 994 authors
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed…
— Paul Auster
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of…
— Paul Auster
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know…
— Josephine Baker
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There is a certain dignity to being French.
— Brigitte Bardot
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
— Dave Barry
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As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had…
— Mario Batali
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States…
— Kate Beckinsale
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In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
— Jose Bergamin
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
— Juliette Binoche
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Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English.…
— Juliette Binoche
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I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
— Mary J. Blige
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The French complain of everything, and always.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
— Bono
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My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure…
— Anthony Bourdain
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My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of…
— Tom Brady
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