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French Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun
- I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
- I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the…
- I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the… — Josephine Baker
- There is a certain dignity to being French. — Brigitte Bardot
- 'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'. — Dave Barry
- As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The… — Mario Batali
- After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. — Emmanuelle Beart
- At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale
- In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. — Jose Bergamin
- Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. — Ambrose Bierce
- I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. — Juliette Binoche
- Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only… — Juliette Binoche