French Quotes

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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
In Paris you're always surrounded by French people. — David Sedaris
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
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
France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets. — Tom Ford
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
...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
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
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. — Charlotte Gainsbourg
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
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
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
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
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
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. — Bernard Pivot
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
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
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
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
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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