Time Quote by Elif Batuman

“The Frenchmen tried to explain that sexual intercourse between males was taboo (despite anything the Brits might have told them about French sailors),”

— Stephen Clarke

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other…

— Alfred de Vigny

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.

— Steve Martin

“I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do…

— Stephanie Perkins

“The French do some things better, like spanking for instance.”

— Chloe Thurlow

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

— Marthe Bibesco

“What do I bring to the problem of the same and the other? This: that the same be the other than the other, and…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

— Alain Ducasse

“I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have…

— Louise Rennison

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

— Gilbert White

“Only one sort of man is worse than an Italian when it comes to their appetite for women." "Oh? And what is that?" "A…

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

“When one speaks of sex with midgets, one must speak French.”

— Dennis Vickers