Quotes About French

No I've never read a line of de Sade and never shall. You see my own dominant overpowering maniacal vice was sadism and in Philadelphia (isn't that the right place for such a thing?) I used to borrow from a friend Sadistic Books in French (he had half a library of them!) and carry them off to my lodging where I wd. read them with my knees knocking together & all my pulses going it like mad in a prolonged cerebral fury of crazy unsatisfied satisfaction.

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

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.

I don't think life gets any better than sitting in the sun while a legend of French cinema tells you stories about making 'Belle de Jour' and other wonderful films, and eating great food.

I don't know what it is, but French men love me.

Michel de Montaigne, a highly-educated French nobleman who retired from public duties and retreated to his family's castle around 1570 to focus on his writing, is

She looked up, eyes bright. 'On the first day, before things became intolerable, an overweight, middle-aged woman from Toulouse – a statistician – whom no one paid any attention to gave a very interesting talk on what she called '"triangulation",' she said, pronouncing the English word with a French accent.

She was aware that she was close to tears and her stomach was hollow with excitement, throat dry. Coup de foudre , the French called it. The thunderclap. The best kind of love of all. Instant and quite irrevocable

Wasn't me who said capitalism was wrong. I just didn't want another argument with Carol. Big projects need capital. It's when the people who have the capital get laws made in their favour that it all goes bad.

fromage fort, a concoction put together from various leftover cheeses, which are puréed in a food processor with the addition of garlic and white wine. This "strong cheese" is excellent spread on bread, toasted under the broiler, and served with a salad.

A thin, firm, crackling ficelle (a skinny loaf of French bread) with a bar of dark chocolate works like a madeleine for me, taking me back to my youth and the French quatre heure, or small snack,

Then there is the small, twisted potato that we call ratte in French. Similar to fingerlings, these yellow, waxy, and dense potatoes are best sautéed in butter and peanut oil in a skillet.

light sauce américaine, with butter, tomatoes, garlic, and cognac.

The French say, "L'éxactitude est la politesse des rois" (Punctuality is the good manners of kings).

Our earliest considerable specimens of the growth of modern languages come from the time of his grandsons, two of whom when combining against a third exchanged oaths of fidelity in languages which each other's troops could understand and which show us early stages in the development of the French and German languages.

This case of Laon suggests several points that are true of the French communes in general. They were created especially at the expense of bishops and ecclesiastical lords, and the Church in consequence made a great outcry against them. "Commune is a new and detestable word," wrote an abbot of the time.

By the end of the war, more than 130 additional French policemen would join Philippe as Alliance operatives—proof that the much-hated French police forces, who were seen, quite rightly, as doing the Germans' dirty work for them, had their fair share of members who passionately opposed the idea of being Nazi collaborators.

The following year, Navarre, not surprisingly, was cashiered from his post in the German section of the Deuxième Bureau, the French army's intelligence agency. "A man of the utmost daring and rebelliousness," he "positively relished being in hot water—wonderful to serve under, impossible to command," the British historian M.R.D. Foot later noted.

I once heard that the French don't prosecute people who commit crimes of passion twenty minutes after waking.

The French also have far lower rates of obesity than Americans do, despite the fact that their diet is higher in fat.