French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally… — Albert Maltz
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. — Oscar Wilde
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. — Mark Twain
I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian. — Izabel Goulart
The French are predictably unpredictable. — Unknown Author
I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have… — Unknown Author
The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line. — Unknown Author
[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then… — Stefan Kieszling
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution… — C L R James
French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction. — Michel Hazanavicius
He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only… — John Steinbeck
Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped… — Roy Blunt
This was a different form of French resistance in Paris on this day, all of these people coming together and sending out pictures like this… — Kimberley Strassel
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo? — Victor Davis Hanson
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. — Wilfred Burchett
Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and… — Michael Crichton
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. — Lytton Strachey
In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national… — Neville Chamberlain
Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in… — Galeazzo Ciano

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