Quotes About French

Now western movies, western novels, and western music were all forbidden again. Russian nationalism was on the rise. French bread was renamed "city bread.

The pressure exerted by a gas on the walls of its container does not depend upon the individual histories of the molecules composing it," says the French existentialist philosopher.

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore.

Boutique, as in small, gifted, and expert in one specialized area. Boutique, as in pretty cool and chic, right down to the Frenchness of the word itself. Boutique, as in thoroughly happy to be small, selective, and prosperous.

urging him to assist the lords in their campaign to expel the French permanently from Scotland.

white was the norm at the French court and continuing to dress in black until her own death in 1589

the most awkward and least convincing coronation day in French history.

Patrick was a Scottish patriot: pro-French and anti-English, but also an opportunist who flirted with England

another the French triumph over the Spanish and papal forces at the battle of Ravenna in 1512.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

It's called Betty Blue," he said. "You watch, I'll translate.

An angel passed. that's what the French say about a comfortable silence.

The french are a moral people--judged, that is, by american country club standards.

Moreover the Verdurins, through that inevitable progress of asstheticism which ends in biting one's own tail, declared that they could not stand the modern style (besides, it came from Munich) nor white walls and they only liked old French furniture in a sombre setting.

Ponchour, Matame la marquise » avec le même accent qu'un concierge alsacien.

tête de veau en tortue

A treed cat, a man in love, and the French. God help the fool who tries to rescue any one of them.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.