French Quotes

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The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly… — James A. Michener
A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion. — Michel de Montaigne
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They… — Mark Twain
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other… — William Hazlitt
I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get… — Juliana Hatfield
My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home. — Nicole Miller
It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an… — W. Somerset Maugham
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most… — Roy Blount, Jr.
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. — Madeleine Albright
I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked… — Helen Fielding
I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white… — Helen Fielding
I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was. — Paul Walker
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American. — Anna Quindlen
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a… — John Howe
Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French. — Alan Jay Lerner
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative,… — Jean Paul Gaultier
The French cook; we open tins. — John Galsworthy
There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding. — Georges Duhamel
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and… — Edmond de Goncourt
I can make the best French toast. — Peter O'Toole
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. — Julian Barnes
The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. — Carlos Fuentes
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for… — Van Wyck Brooks

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