French Quotes

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I wish for the thing that is best for me.

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

Hell, I don't know if he speaks French.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Even if I'm eating healthy, I let myself indulge with french fries. That's my favorite thing. You only live once!

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

I can make the best French toast.

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.

When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

Show me a person who doesn't like french fries and we'll swap lies.

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Rien ne va arrêter ma quête pour te trouver" No one will stop my quest to find you.

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.

Kill the king but spare the man.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

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.

I grew up watching a lot of Italian and French movies, so I want to have that '70s look, in my dream movie. I want that thing that's not so much happening now, that's existentialist.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus.

Every year there's a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Getting on the jury is very competitive in France. Not because the French love cinema, but because they love to judge.

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

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

I like French fries," I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.

John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?