Quotes About French

He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.

raining a Trafalgar, too!" "Merde!" He turned to go up the ladder. At the top, he turned again. "Bien, mon chef marin, bonne chance!" "Mercy buckets, M'sieur. See you next time.

Ever since the first introduction of taxes and regulations, the French have devoted much time and energy to evading them: it is so much a part of the French way of life that even now there is an official consolation of 10 percent for those who have no possibility of concealing their exact incomes.

the Istiqlal was powerful, which did not at all coincide with his conception of it, nor with the picture the organization painted of itself: a purely defensive group of selfless martyrs who were willing to brave the brutality of the French in order to bring hope to their suffering countrymen.

The odious little dogs that French people seemed to like so much rushed out at him as he rode by, barking furiously.

You know what politique is? It is the French word for a lie. Kdoub! Politique! When you hear the French say: our politique, you know they mean: our lies. And when you hear the Moslems, the Friends of Independence, say: our politique, you know they mean: our lies. All lies are sins. And so, which displeases Allah more, a lie told by a Nazarene, who doesn't know the true faith from the false, or a lie told by a Moslem, who does?

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just a short trip to any French territory in the Pacific is enough to convince even the most casual observer that the French are among the most self-serving, manipulative, trivial-minded, obnoxious, cynical, and corrupting nations on the face of the earth.

French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed

On the eve of the French Revolution in 1789, there were severe restrictions placed on Jews throughout Europe. In the German city of Frankfurt, for example, their lives were regulated by orders set out in a statute dating from the Middle Ages. There

We found a table. Nora said: She's pretty. If you like them like that. She grinned at me. You got types? Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. And how about the red-head you wandered off with at Quinns' last night? That's silly, I said. She just wanted to show me some French etchings.

What do you do with all your money? Me and the French hoard gold.

should explain that a "sommelier" is a wine steward, the dignified person who comes up to you at expensive restaurants, hands you the wine list, and says "Excellent choice, sir," when you point to French writing that, translated, says "Sales Tax Included.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.

Dignity is an affection, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

In eighteenth-century England a system of professional police and prosecutors, government paid and appointed, was viewed as potentially tyrannical—worse still, French.

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.