Quotes About French

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

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

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much.

I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Actually I had just intended to retaliate, because when we met the first time you chided me for not speaking very good Norse. Well, that jest fell flat, since your French is excellent.

Brie de Meaux is generally considered to be the king of Bries, but if you have a choice, buy on taste.

settled by the French," he

They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn't look very important any more. Later I learned that if you watch men die, especially if you've known them at all, they still look important afterward no matter what you have to do with them, but I was inexperienced then.

To the French, [le plaisir] is a part of the general fearless and joyful contact with life.

I don't suppose, dear, you're really defending the French Sunday?

Many French people were difficult conversationalists. Asking them not only where they were originally from but what they did in life was considered rude—I suppose because many of them did nothing (many Parisians are rentiers, people who live off the rents of their properties) or because they weren't proud of their jobs, which simultaneously supported and interfered with their intellectual and artistic passions.

The French word for "plot," trame , also means "heft" or "weave.

America was the attic of French culture.

This process of accusation by the Commons at once acquired a name. In Norman French it was ampeschement: it meant embarrassment. Spoken in English it became: impeachment.

O habría sucumbido al terrible hábito francés de la arrogancia, igual que todos los demás? Francia

Our ancestors had a particular veneration for St. Maurus, under the Norman kings; and the noble family of Seymour (from the French Saint Maur) borrow from him its name, as Camden observes in his Remains.

Saint-Simon was aware of the role of class struggle in history. Thus he divided contemporary French society into the industriels and the oisifs—those who worked, and the rich parasites who lived off their labor.

Bon chance, mon ami," Dante called softly. Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad.