Top 1200 French Toast Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

At West Ham there were a couple of French players and they helped me get used to the team and the club.

I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.

There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I haggle with French grannies over their old knick-knacks and walk away with some real gems.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

Play with Spain? I think that's already closed, but even so, I opt for France because I'm French. I don't have dual citizenship, and I'm not going to ask for it.

I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.

I'm a big French fry girl. I try to avoid them, but sometimes you just need to indulge, so I go for it!

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Even on the red carpet, French celebrities keep it minimal. Think of Charlotte Gainsbourg - the look can be quite undone.

I'm always looking for a way to get some spice into my cooking but, generally, the French don't like spicy food.

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

I was born in Saint Boniface, which is a small city right next to Winnipeg, nominally French speaking.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Yohan Cabaye. He's a French player, and he dresses really well every day. There's no effort. That's how I like to dress.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

I always wanted to learn French or Italian growing up. I love the romantic sound of those languages.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

I think the French teams sometimes doubt themselves. They play some beautiful games but, when it comes down to it, do not go through.

Like the French, Koreans aim for a subtle and effortless look - while actually paying a lot of attention to the details.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

As a 'parisien d'adoption,' I am only semicognizant of where I may fit at any given time into the French social fabric.

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn't watch him a lot.

Jacques Audiard has always been an outlier in a French film industry that is starkly bifurcated between high and low.

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

Everything French is amazing, especially creme brulee, but then burnt sugar works for me in any capacity.

Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.

We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

If you are in Holland, be careful not to say tomorrow that you don't like French, German or Swedish food or people, you could be called a racist.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

The widespread use of pesticides in the French countryside, and its worrying effects on nature and the environment, had troubled me for years.

French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

My friend I wish health to you, I also wish wealth to you; I wish the best that life can give to you, And may dreams always come true to you. May fortune to kind to you, And happiness be true to you; And love be so sweet to you And life be long and good to you. And in this toast we give to you Our love we all give to you.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Even if I know that people can hear my French accent, my goal is to provide the best English as possible when I act.

Biarritz is one of the most popular holiday destinations in France and it tops the list for coastal resorts along the French Atlantic.

I never watched British television. I bought myself a satellite for French, Spanish and Portuguese TV, instead.

I think French women are incredibly comfortable in their skin, whereas in the States people are striving more for one beauty ideal.