Character Quote by Thomas Jefferson

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,…

— Bernard Pivot

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

— Gaspar Noe

When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

— Patrick Demarchelier

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

— Gaspar Noe

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

— John Dewey

Only thing the French are good at is having affairs and giving up and losing fights.

— Sean Strickland

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

— Fabrice Luchini

I know the French mentality.

— Nicolas Anelka

The French are very individualistic.

— Eric Rohmer

The idea of life in France is a utopia where the women are beautiful and they eat cheese all day and wear designer clothes…

— Roxane Gay

It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations;…

— Anita Loos

I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in…

— Frederick Wiseman