Quotes About French

If a donkey could talk, and if the donkey had a sore throat, and if it spoke with a French accent—that was what Mr. Gorf's voice sounded like.

Hamilton believed that the United States should preemptively seize Spanish Florida and Louisiana, lest they fall into hostile French hands. To accomplish this, he directed General James Wilkinson to assemble an armada of seventy-five riverboats.

the Rothschilds dismissed the French cause as hopeless.

Junius insisted that every French document be accompanied by a certified translation.

I mean, he didn't get in till four. He hosted a party at Neuralgio's for our new French author, Claude Nasal-Passages, and then everybody went on to the Twelve Apostles.

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Francaise with our own proper pack. This permission, we feel bound to say, was graciously granted; which compels us here to give a public contradiction to the slanderers who pretend that we live

les Italiennes ont du moins sur les Françaises l'avantage d'être fidèles à leur infidélité.

Nothing could be more obscure and out of reach of the common man than a law founded on precedent....A French lawyer is just a man of learning, but an English or an American one is somewhat like the Egyptian priests, being, as they were, the only interpreters of an occult science.

Rather, he accepted democracy as an objective fact and wanted to address positive and negative lessons the French people could learn from the American example. He wrote, "I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress."5

If necessary, we can then contact the Smith Kline & French representative near here who can testify I never received another large bottle of sample Eskatrol.

Parlez-vous français, aussi?

At the time he seemed both ancient and French, but the wisdom that has come with age tells me he was thirty-two and faking the accent.

In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine ' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce.

What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of, For good things, oft, are not so near; A German can't endure the French to see or hear of, Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our most aeromantic hens. Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone. We French, we English, never lost our civil war, Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.

The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so sure, that the foreigner (especially someone from chaotic, confused America) is quickly seduced into believing that if he can only become a Parisian he will at last master the art of living.

Primer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Segundo acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Tercer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. ¿Cómo se llama la obra? "La marsellesa".

Mademoiselle from Armenteers, Hasn't been kissed in forty years, Hinky dinky, parley-voo.

Don't know much about historyDon't know much biologyDon't know much about a science bookDon't know much about the French I took

If you've ever read the French philosopher Alain Badiou, you'll know that he defines jokes as a type of rupture that opens up truths.

I like to provoke. I'm very French.