French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. — Kristin Scott Thomas
You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress. — Virginie Ledoyen
If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch. — Wilfrid Laurier
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic. — David Morrissey
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right… — Adam Michnik
You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good. — Amelie Mauresmo
I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall. — Holly Madison
I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all.… — Holly Madison
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. — E. V. Lucas
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on… — Rod Parsley
This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to… — Dave Barry
In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two… — Groucho Marx
The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to… — Pamela Druckerman
If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered… — Dave Barry
I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons. — Bob Hope
Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking. — Bob Hope
I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me. — Sean Connery
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time… — Lytton Strachey
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the… — Bernardo Bertolucci
In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it… — Walter Abish
It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire.… — Kevin Kline
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of… — Terry Eagleton
I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I… — Meg Cabot
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. — Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

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