Quotes About French

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

I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite like to have just stayed in the car with my German and French vocab books. It's embarrassing to admit to it now.

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.

Let's stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that's only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and our powerlessness. I, born Muslim, Moroccan, and French, I will say it to you: Sharia makes me vomit.

I do not think it is a coincidence that young people gravitated toward populist voices in the French election and that the two issue positions where Donald Trump and young voters seem to agree most - global engagement and trade - are rooted in populism.

The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.

When I was 19, I began work at a French sourdough bakery in Balmain.

When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.

I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once. Huh? It said, 'Oeuf.' What is that? It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

despertaba ese incompatible rencor que sólo causan la inteligencia, la gracia y la pedantería francesas [...]

The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance.

cleverness that the French adore and always mistake for wisdom.

The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.

The cabbage seems to have been unknown to the Hebrews. It is not mentioned in the Bible.' I love that – so French. Just the slightest note of disappointment with God; just the merest raised eyebrow and pursued Gallic lip.

Nothing could be more French than pastry.

Those Frenchies may know their pastry, but you can't beat a bit of British cheese.

When you think about French pastry, one of the most classic traditional pastries is the eclair. An eclair is like a blank canvas that can be easily adapted to any environment. Ingredients are the most important aspect of a perfect eclair, and they need to be used at their peak.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

Only the French people say French food is the finest cuisine in the world. If you ask anyone else, they will tell you the best food in the world is Italian.

I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

in the American and French Revolutions. Equality was then understood primarily as a relation, as a way of making a society, of producing and living in common.

Tea without sugar just wasn't done. Or at least not talked about in polite society. Like French kissing your first cousin.

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.