French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. — Lionel Jospin
Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'. — Alexis Ohanian
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor… — Eliot Engel
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. — Vladimir Lenin
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with… — G. M. Trevelyan
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use… — Peter Medawar
French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused. — An Na
I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So… — Yevgeny Kafelnikov
I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger,… — Jerry Rubin
Religion has always been the picklock of imperialism. Let them try to convert the heathens, and when they fail, we shall send in the French… — Jules Ferry
I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly… — Harriet Quimby
The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time. — Billy Higgins
There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her. — Carly Simon
And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had… — Clare Short
French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the… — Unknown Author
I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory. — Martina Hingis
And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it. — Martina Hingis
I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing… — Martina Hingis
There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort… — Geraldo Rivera
At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky. — Philip Freneau
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved… — Victor Davis Hanson
What isn’t clear, isn’t French. — Antoine Rivarol

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