French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and… — William Shakespeare
I'm the Cool One," she told herself. "Somebody give me some tequila because I'll totally drink it. And there's no way you're going to find… — Rainbow Rowell
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years. — Edward Abbey
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to… — P.J. O'Rourke
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan… — Simone Weil
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns… — Fred Allen
On recent events in a New York hotel room: What happened was not just inappropriate, it was more than that, it was a fault; a… — Dominique Strauss-Kahn
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving… — Jean Kerr
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played… — Winston Churchill
You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is… — Conan O'Brien
I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English. — Jane Birkin
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. — Josephine de La Baume
One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The… — Arielle Kebbel
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages.… — Poppy Delevingne
I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably. — Ethan Zuckerman
I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. — Alexa Davalos
I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District.… — Anika Noni Rose
People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never… — John McWhorter
As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great,… — Bryan Batt
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so… — Janine di Giovanni
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years… — Loretta Napoleoni
When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to… — Joshua Prince-Ramus
Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive. — Gilles Marini
My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way. — India de Beaufort

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