French Quotes
1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors
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I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.
— Nicolas Sarkozy
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We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health. ...We can't lie…
— Michelle Obama
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my…
— Jim Harrison
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I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then,…
— Alex Jones
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I have always said the French team is the most important thing that has happened to me. I thought deeply about it and I want…
— Zinedine Zidane
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The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in…
— Zinedine Zidane
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But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't…
— William Peter Blatty
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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it…
— Edward Sapir
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Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a…
— Edward Sapir
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English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of…
— Edward Sapir
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My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its…
— Mick Jagger
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I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out…
— Unknown Author
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Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had…
— Jean Chretien
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful…
— Cecilia Bartoli
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What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
— Richard Rorty
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Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
— Bob Schaffer
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