French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it… — Lawrence Block
I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a… — Kimbra
I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. Vegan just means that you don't use animal products, so you don't… — Emily Deschanel
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow… — Will Ferguson
The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim… — Bernard d'Espagnat
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a… — William Shirley
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps… — Allan Massie
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers. — Hanoi Hannah
I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its… — Anatoly Chubais
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. — David Amram
The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of… — Ahmed Ben Bella
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning… — Daniel Yergin
I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet. — Jean-Marie Messier
French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the… — Alma Gluck
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my… — Sally Kirkland
I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality.… — Lea Seydoux
In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee),… — Rory Stewart
Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up. — Sean Avery
You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do… — Gordon Bethune
There is no English equivalent for the French word flÃ¢neur. Cassell's dictionary defines flÃ¢neur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems… — Cornelia Otis Skinner

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