French Quotes

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

The French have got taste.

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

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

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.