French Quotes

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.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

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.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.