Quotes About French

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Los franceses fueron los primeros en adoptar la Ilustración inglesa y transformaron brillantemente su propia cultura intelectual, tomándola como base, antes de que los rousseaunianos distorsionaran la Revolución, alejándola de los lockistas, y la convirtieran en el caos del terror.

Phrases like "hearts and minds" first arose in public discourse in the 1890s. The French called the strategy "peaceful penetration.

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.

I fancy all the Disney princes, obviously. I also fancy some objects and animals that are in Disney films, like the French Candlestick from 'Beauty and the Beast,' and I used to be slightly jealous of the feather duster that he used to slightly get off with.

I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.

It's Fendi. French, Fendi, both start with an F... I fell in love with it. Smells like grown-man cologne.

John smoked his French Gauloises and drank lots of strong coffee.

Snob value has great appeal. I have a couple of properties on the French Riviera that have doubled in value - I may buy more as the region continues to be developed.

To say "I'm hungry" in French you say "J'ai faim"—"I have hunger"—and when you are finished, you do not say that you are full, but "Je n'ai plus faim"—"I have no more hunger.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

I love fashion because it can change to suit your mood. I'm very drawn to classic silhouettes, menswear-inspired pieces, and anything that feels a little French. I'm also inspired by Brit girl style.

Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.

A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without.

Whoever said you can't have a revolution without the French should be guillotined.

You have just broken one of the cardinal rules. One does not contradict a member of the French royal family, no matter how ridiculous or patently false their utterances may be.

They walked across 15th Street to the Madison Hotel's Montpelier Room, an opulent French restaurant. Bradlee asked for a corner table, and began the conversation. 'You'd better bring me up to date because...' He turned to order lunch in perfect French, and then turned back to Woodward. '...our cocks are on the chopping block now and I just want to know a little bit more about this.

The rabbit was not domesticated until early medieval times (it was bred by French monks in the belief that newborn bunnies were fish and therefore exempt from the prohibitions against eating meat on certain days in the Church calendar);

MARY: Catherine! Is it necessary to include such a detail? CATHERINE: Do you expect our readers to believe that we had no bodily needs or functions for entire days at a time? MARY: No, but such things are simply—unstated. They go without saying. CATHERINE: It's very fashionable now to include realistic details, no matter how unpleasant or improper. Look at the French writers. Look at Émile Zola. MARY: We are not French.

In my junior year in college, I was getting kind of tired of French. So, I took an economics course, and I loved it. The rest of my two years in college I spent in economics.

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.

One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.