French Quotes

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Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped… — Rick Santorum
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods. — Marjane Satrapi
I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these… — Marjane Satrapi
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical… — Ferdinand de Saussure
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that… — Franz Schubert
I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot… — Howard Schultz
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am… — Baron de Montesquieu
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of… — David Sedaris
I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous! — Amanda Seyfried
When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone… — Richard Simmons
My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But… — Nikki Sixx
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a… — Thomas Sowell
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. — Stendhal
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal
Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it. — Martha Stewart
I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I… — Rod Stewart
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. — Randall Terry
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up. — Kristin Scott Thomas
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated… — Kristin Scott Thomas
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers… — Alexis de Tocqueville
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? — Desmond Tutu
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. — Peter Ustinov
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't,… — Lalla Ward
Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods. — Betty White

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