Frenchmen Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image “Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frenchmen Genre Language Love
I don't think I can repeat any of the French words I know on camera, to be honest. — Ollie Watkins Copy Share Image
I think what's very French is the mixture of comedy with intimacy and a kind of reflectiveness. For U.S. audiences, the nearest thing is… — Romain Duris Copy Share Image
I often wonder why we don't have an English word for 'genre.' People on arts programmes always have to use the word and invariably… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
“I was brought up to look upon falling in love as something natural...something that was pleasant and natural and amusing. I've been in love… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar. — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La… — Zinedine Zidane Copy Share Image
Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be… — F. Huegel Copy Share Image
I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
