French Quotes

1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong… — Lou Doillon
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and… — Aimee Bender
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. — P.J. O'Rourke
We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is… — Frank Crowninshield
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father… — Helen Vendler
If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much… — Edith Head
I just dreamed about living in Paris and being French. I always loved the visual arts, film and theatre, and I hoped to be involved… — Maureen Chiquet
When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if… — Rosecrans Baldwin
American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media. — Rosecrans Baldwin
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it. — Unknown Author
I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French. — David Chang
When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the… — Alice Waters
Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards… — J. Anthony Lukas
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered. — Bruce Chatwin
The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a… — Clifford Ross
Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear… — Susan Holloway Scott
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend… — Tyler Cowen
You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a subject like the… — Simon Schama
My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what… — Gad Elmaleh
The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the… — Maurice Druon
Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it. — Maurice Druon
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to… — Maurice Druon
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation… — Rashid al-Ghannushi
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and… — Noam Chomsky
My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I,… — Patrick O'Brian

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