French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job… — Anthony Bourdain
Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party! — Steven Moffat
Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar.” I did a quick translation. “Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?” He grinned. “It sounds better in French.” Yeah,… — Karen Chance
I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then… — Kim Harrison
Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á …… — Kelley Armstrong
I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it… — James Patterson
Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish,… — Lee Child
Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows… — Ally Carter
So we know she's safe and taken care of?" Daniel asked, and she nodded. "Good. Then why don't we do something that you want to… — Amanda Hocking
Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You are everything that's ever been my favourite thing," she wanted to tell him. "You're my love song, my birthday cake, the sound of ocean… — Lisa Kleypas
Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships — Ruskin Bond
I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to… — Jonathan Safran Foer
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk… — Isak Dinesen
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go… — Noam Chomsky
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else,… — Emile M. Cioran
Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, here are a few things you should know:… — Brandon Sanderson
He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd… — Colin Cotterill
Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly? — Tina Fey
Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always… — John Green
How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version… — Sara Shepard
There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English.… — Neil Gaiman
The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is… — Matthew Arnold

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