French Quotes

A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.

I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.

I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.