French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic.… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and… — Anita Roddick
The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no… — Richard Cobden
The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The… — Andrew Greeley
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by… — Clement Greenberg
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. — Louis XVIII of France
Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The… — Manfred von Richthofen
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code… — Richard M. Weaver
At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with… — Louise Bourgeois
I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta. — Belva Plain
The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now. — Gerard Houllier
This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the… — Theodore Roosevelt
Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French… — Napoleon Bonaparte
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English. — Harry Caray
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I… — Arthur Gordon Webster
Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech,… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of… — John Muir
It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy… — Julia Child
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour. — Elvis Costello
I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words. — Clint Eastwood
I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St.… — Quincy Jones
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done… — Nick Offerman
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine… — Rosellen Brown

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