Top 1200 French Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.

I'm French, and no one really knows that unless I tell them. So, I can speak French; that's my secret talent.

I don't feel French at all. That was never really a concern, and it's limiting to think that way. I think Paris is more of a playground for international designers, so I don't really feel French. And I don't really want to feel French.

I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

After years of studying French in school, one of my professors said he'd really appreciate it if I didn't take any more French.

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.

I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.

This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails.

Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.

I've never really spoken French. I didn't do French lessons at school, so I'm starting from scratch.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

It's a choice of civilization. I will be the president of those French who want to continue living in France as the French do.

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is French, people.

Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.

To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

I get a lot of letters from French lady admirers - and gentlemen. 'Midsomer' is a huge hit in France, and it's all down to the guy dubbing me into French - a middle-aged balding fellow.

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

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

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just rich. The word "healthy" doesn't exist in French. We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.

The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

We have talked about revoking French citizenship for some individuals. Therefore, I have decided to apply for citizenship, which in a way points out the contradictions of this bill that states the forfeiture of French citizenship exclusively to individuals holding dual nationalities. Through this application, I put myself in the midst of the French political debate and discredit everything that might be said against me about this matter.

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

I had an amazing French teacher in high school - it was the one class that I enjoyed. And I studied opera for 11 years, so I did a lot of singing in French.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

I took about four or five years of French in high school, but I definitely don't speak French as well as I thought I did then.

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.

As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin.

Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie Souvestre really appreciated Eleanor Roosevelt's talents and encouraged her talents. Also, she spoke perfect French. She grew up speaking French. She's now at a french-speaking school where, you know, girls are coming from all over the world. Not everybody speaks French.

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

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

I only know English, so I feel like I can be the dopest French rapper ever if I learned French.

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).

I think French women tend to keep it simple. I'd say try the less-is-more approach, which is not always easy to get right.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, here are a few things you should know: 1) Women have feelings. 2) You will spend the next seventy years or so trying to guess what they're feeling and why. 3) You will be wrong most of the time. 4) I like French Fries.

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.

What's surprising to me now is that now that I'm talking to a lot of women about this, so many women are doing this. Straight women, lesbian women, bisexual women, poor women, White women, immigrant women. This does not affect one group.

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.