Top 1200 French Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 29, 2024.
French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
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.
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.
Biarritz is one of the most popular holiday destinations in France and it tops the list for coastal resorts along the French Atlantic.
The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.
If the elites listened, they would understand why French young people like me are joining our ranks.
I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.
There are some pundits with whom I will settle my differences... they want to sell a lie to the French people that Evra is disliked. But that is not the case at all.
In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.
I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its own wasteful expenditures.
The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.
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.
No one is attacking Islam, as such. We accept that there is a large French-born Islamic population in France who have a right to be here. The FN is not a racist or Islamophobic party.
Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up.
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.
I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.
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 to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
I have to say I've been pretty lucky in that my French fry indulgences don't really affect my skin. I keep a stable routine.
I think the French teams sometimes doubt themselves. They play some beautiful games but, when it comes down to it, do not go through.
If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.
French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.
It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.
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.
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.
A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
If there were only one place to eat, I would pick anywhere in Northern Vietnam where you get the French and Vietnamese culinary fusion.
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.
The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.
The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
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.
Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'
I always had a thin frame, but when you hit 40 and eat french fries three days in a row, it's like, 'What happened?'
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.
In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
The widespread use of pesticides in the French countryside, and its worrying effects on nature and the environment, had troubled me for years.
I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.
The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.
I think French women are incredibly comfortable in their skin, whereas in the States people are striving more for one beauty ideal.
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
'Death In Paradise' is my dream job - a fascinating character, great scripts, superb cast, and shooting in the Caribbean with French catering.
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
