"The French, I think, in general, are strangely……" — Gilbert White

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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… — Paul Auster
• I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary… — Paul Auster
• I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Juliette Binoche

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