French Quotes

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

The French have got taste.

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of.

There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.