French Quotes
1316 French quotes by 958 unique authors
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For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and…
— Daniel Boulud
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual…
— Daniel Boulud
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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
— Charles V
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As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
— Sydney Smith
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Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and…
— Said Musa
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There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the…
— Suzanne Fields
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Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was…
— Kenneth Koch
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The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.
— Bill O'Brien
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We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married…
— David Amram
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I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
— William John Wills
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For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a…
— Alton Brown
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These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups…
— Jean Moulin
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Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
— Victoria de los Angeles
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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
— Brian Ferneyhough
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You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.
— Sophie Marceau
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The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
— Marcel Carne
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I speak French fluently, so that really helped.
— Noah Hathaway
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Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
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During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
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Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
— Jim Coleman
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The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
— Gilbert White
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The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.
— Gordon Sinclair
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That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British…
— Michael Baden
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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
— Robert Morgan
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The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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