Top 1200 French Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.
I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.
Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.
Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
I mean no offence, but we know that the French league is not the same as the Spanish or English league, where there's more difficulty.
There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.
If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.
One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.
Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.
The biggest style icons to me are French girls. I think Bridgette Bardot is so sexy and Jane Birkin pulls off a blouse and t-shirt to perfection.
Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French, but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.
To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
My sisters started to cook at nine and, being one of the youngest, I wanted in on it, too, so I began at six on potato-peeling duty as french fries were my thing.
I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you're saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
I was very anti-French everything for a very long time.
I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.
I've been to New York many times, and I've always noticed that there aren't that many French tucks around.
I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.
I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.
When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose in a vocabulary book - usually in French or German.
I love filet mignon. I love French and Italian cuisine.
My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.
Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens.
When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.
Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.
I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.
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.
Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.
Queen Victoria loved the French Riviera. She visited on nine occasions and did a great deal to give this area its chic international reputation.
I've heard it said that if you know English, Spanish, Italian, and I think it's French, you can go just about anywhere in this world...except for China where they have all those derelicts.
It's because of this massive immigration and more in some places, (that) France's image has undeniably changed. There are a number of neighborhoods where you are no longer living a French life. That's undeniable.
Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).
On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.
By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.
The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.
My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn't French anymore.
French actors are so much better and cinema is better over there.
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new moral justification for the political system of historical capitalism.
Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.
The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.
The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.
English youth is less politicised than French youth.
The melody is French. But that's the end of the record. I named it "Jean Pierre Then There Were None," you know, because of the big explosion. You'll like it. It's a nice album.
