Top 1200 Great French Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.
I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.
For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.
I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.
My family is from New Orleans. My grandma is French. Everybody else is from Mississippi - Creole people.
My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.
I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.
Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
That's the whole thing: You only roast the ones you love. That's why I never make fun of the French.
French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.
These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!
The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn.
The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.
I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.
You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied. So what? Got something against the French?
My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.
The French league is a bit below the English. But I think life in Paris is more beautiful.
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
Je suis autant Chinois que Fran c° ais. I am as much Chinese as French.
Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.
I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well there.
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France.
I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand.
Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.
The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying
In England, the fans are more spectators than supporters. There's a better atmosphere in French stadiums.
I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.
I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
Who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French and hasn't cried once today? This moi.
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth?
I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.
In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
I started off with the flute and French horn, and then I was playing trumpet in the jazz band.
