Quotes About French

But, though French, she was also very brave...

Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or two questions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

The moral, as Mr. Drawlight explained it, was that if Mr. Norrell hoped to win friends for the cause of modern magic, he must insert a great many more French windows into his house.

La nouvelle cuisine nació en Lyon, en las cocinas de Paul Bocuse. Esta mariconada posmoderna con el típico sello de la cursilería francesa todavía no había afectado de modo irreparable a las profundas esencias de la cocina vernácula, la afecta a la oreja de cerdo, a las fabes, a la morcilla de cebolla, al rabo de toro, a la olla y a la cuchara.

Los franceses empezaron a caminar con las manos en la boca, o amarrándose una improvisada máscara de tela fina sobre boca y nariz como forajidos de leyenda;

The Druids left no monuments: they preferred nature to buildings and taught in groves and caves where they also conducted rituals. The French cathedral of Chartres was built over a sacred Druid site.

while eighteen-button gloves have three small pearl buttons each at the musketeer (which everyone knows is the opening at the wrist), there are, indeed, eighteen buttons on each in length. That button is a standard of measurement of approximately one inch. The approximate part is because it is a French standard of measurement.

Little Miss Bauer sat in her tower, eating a burger and fries. Along came a spider who sat down beside her and said "I prefer zee French flies.

Para la República Democrática, Berlín Occidental era más que un escaparate, era una gran base militar con más de doce mil soldados entre norteamericanos, británicos y franceses.

He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?" She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!" "I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent?

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.

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

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.

Could you", wrote Mr. Jefferson, "Find me a gardener Who can play the french horn?

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

A fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the Good Soldier is the finest novel in the English language!" whereupon my friend John Rodker, who has always had a properly tempered admiration for my work, remarked in his clear, slow drawl: "Ah, yes. It is, but you have left out a word. It is the finest French novel in the English language!"

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That's not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it's because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, "When you love life, you go to the movies," it's false! It's exactly the opposite: when you don't love life, or when life doesn't give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

Here it is wished, as elsewhere, that women possess merit and virtue. But nature would have had to make them thus, for the upbringing they are given is in such opposition to the goal proposed that it appears to me to be the great masterpiece of French inconsequence.

The French Connection?

we use an English word for a farm animal and a French word for the cooked meat it provides.

He nodded. A police or French siren went off. The French have a different siren than we do—more insistent, horrible, like the love child of a cheap car alarm and the wrong-answer buzzer on Family Feud. We let it shatter our silence and waited for it to fade away. I

Adam was charming and spoke perfect French. Like many anglophones in Montréal, he actually spoke French better than we did. They knew exactly which verbs to use in the same way that people knew which utensils to use while eating at a fancy dinner. It was very proper because they learned it from books. They didn't know slang or how to curse. They didn't know how to do anything other than be proper and reserved. It was state-sponsored, dry-clean-only French.