Top 1200 Speaks French Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

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.

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

Subramaniyam Swami is a very qualified man; whenever he speaks, he speaks something new.

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

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

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

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox, so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.

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.

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.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

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.

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.

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

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.

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.

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Wherever you've got a migrant culture, the food evolves and in New Orleans it's that French and Spanish influence. So you get gumbo, which came out of French bouillabaisse, jambalaya - a version of paella - and the boudin sausage, which is like the French boudin.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

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.

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 soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

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

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

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

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

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

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.

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

One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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 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'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.

The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.

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

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.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.

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

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

The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people, or a territory, or a nation, but rather the human race and the planet we inhabit.

When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

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

When the Bible speaks, God speaks.