French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels… — Hilary Mantel
I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. — Wynton Marsalis
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything! — Steve Martin
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school. — Tatiana Maslany
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to… — W. Somerset Maugham
Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe… — Ewan McGregor
I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French. — Danica McKellar
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain. — Helen Mirren
I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French. — Cory Monteith
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in… — Mandy Moore
I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving… — Dylan Moran
I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish… — Viggo Mortensen
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French,… — Constance Baker Motley
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. — Audie Murphy
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult. — Rafael Nadal
I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation.… — Michelle Obama
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We… — Jacques Pepin
The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French...… — Pat Robertson
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I… — Ja Rule
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points… — Salman Rushdie
I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese. — Zoe Saldana
The French revolution taught us the rights of man. — Thomas Sankara

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