French Quotes

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.'

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!