Funny quotes Quote by Peter Matthiessen

“As I said, the good die young, and the motherfuckers go on forever, pardon my French.”

— Stephen Hunter

“...a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn…

— Henry Fielding

“ 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Our worshipers have met this British agent before. Do not attempt to convert him; bring him alive before Us. He will be of great…

— Charles Stross

“The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever." Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles." That comed--as you call…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We bless the ice, then we just have to somehow get all hundred or so of those monsters to go lick the statue!” I…

— David Wong

“I should add, however, by way of justification of French politeness, that our fellow-countrymen are, when travelling, models of good manners in comparison with…

— Guy de Maupassant

In the last scene, between death and ourselves, there is no more pretending: we must speak plain French.

— Anonymous

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who…

— Fred Allen

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French…

— Lauren Willig

“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never…

— Monique Truong

“since for me speaking French is like speaking without saying anything somehow—with no responsibilities, the way we speak in a dream.”

— Thomas Mann