French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a… — Edgar Allan Poe
Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch. — Susanna Clarke
Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. — Tom Robbins
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach… — John F. Kennedy
But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I… — Barbara Kingsolver
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant… — Dorothy Parker
Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?" Zoe blinked.… — Rick Riordan
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. — John Keats
Teach French and unteach sincerity. — Leo Tolstoy
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing… — Chuck Palahniuk
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said… — James Joyce
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots… — Mark Twain
I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup… — Haruki Murakami
Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone. — Katherine Neville
What exactly is a french before it's fried? — D. J. MacHale
Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known… — David Sedaris
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman… — Mahatma Gandhi
Cher Marcel, Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious why Oskar should… — Jonathan Safran Foer
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into… — Edith Wharton
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
They were French, they were Jews, and they were you. — Markus Zusak
Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware… — Edgar Allan Poe
The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Avant-garde is French for bullshit — John Lennon
I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans… — Louis de Bernieres

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