French Quotes
1316 quotes by 958 authors
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We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.…
— Richard Dawkins
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In Paris you're always surrounded by French people.
— David Sedaris
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In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must…
— George Polya
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I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and…
— Philip Larkin
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France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
— Tom Ford
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's…
— Rollo May
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...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789...…
— Karl Marx
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I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked…
— Jessica Pare
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The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
— Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being…
— Will Durant
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I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing…
— Rowan Atkinson
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For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I…
— Ernst Toller
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The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a…
— J F C Fuller
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French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
— Bernard Pivot
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If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else…
— Ajay Devgan
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne);…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were married [M/M Eymard],…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique.…
— Masaharu Morimoto
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