Quotes About French

French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

A light supper, starting with an evening soup (often done in French households), is conducive to a great night's sleep.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

The adept of courtly love, fresh from sighing at his unapproachable lady's feet, could pause on his homeward journey to tumble a shepherdess in her meadow, a fresh-faced village girl under a hedge. The Muslims in Spain and Syria were shocked by the licentiousness of the French.

A few of the Germans managed to reach Palestine, where they disappeared. The French party fell into the hands not of angels but of two of the worst scoundrels in history, Hugh the Iron and William of Posquères, Marseilles shipowners, who offered the young crusaders free transport to the Holy Land, but carried them instead to Bougie in North Africa and sold them as slaves to Arab dealers.

English has become the language of business, hence its popularity. I guess the French have nothing to offer, instead they exploit their friends on a daily basis.

Learning French is a waste of time in our generation. But it's still beautiful if you want to explore different cultures.

It shouldn't be. It should be beautiful. A bond, a promise. That's what the word means, after all. I looked it up once. Fiancé: from the French word 'fiance,' meaning, 'to trust.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

American motor-and-music city of Detroit. Two centuries after the settlement's founding, Cadillac's name was a synonym for mass-produced luxury. He thus has the best name recognition today of any French colonist, and his memory resounds in countless song lyrics.

Was there something distinctive about American civil society that gave democracy a better chance than in France, as Tocqueville argued? Was the already centralized French state more likely to produce a Napoleon than the decentralized United States? We cannot be sure. But it is not unreasonable to ask how long the US constitution would have lasted if the United States had suffered the same military and economic strains that swept away the French constitution of 1791

The French were still heading south, towards Gibraltar. This came as a relief to Lord Nelson,

another French account, Villeneuve immediately seized the Imperial eagle from the foot of the Bucentaure's mainmast

But the Cadiz authorities were still difficult. The French were hated in the port.

few miles away, similar preparations were taking place among the French and Spanish.

They were aiming for the Straits of Gibraltar. It was the obvious place to intercept the French

do not say the French cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea.' Admiral St Vincent

King George in turn was outraged 'that the French usurper had addressed himself to him'.

The whole enterprise had been doomed from the start, right from the day the French fleet left Toulon six months earlier.

as were the chaloupes canonnières,

But the French still thought in terms of wooden ships and sail, as did the English across the Channel.

Interestingly, the word 'person' did not originally refer to the individual in the way we tend to use it today. Instead, 'person' came, via french, from the Latin word 'persona', which referred to the mask worn by tan actor to protray a particular character. In this theatrical sense, personality has to do with the role or character that the person plays in life's drama. The person's individuality, in this sense, is a matter of the roles or characters that he or she assumes.

They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.

The word "fractal" was coined in 1975 by the Polish/French/American mathematician, Benoît Mandelbrot (b. 1924), to describe shapes which are detailed at all scales.