french Quotes and Quotations
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french Quotes and Quotations
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Paul Auster | top
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I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. Josephine Baker | top
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'. Dave Barry | top
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In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. Jose Bergamin | top
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My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. Tom Brady | top
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. Gavin Bryars | top
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A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. Art Buchwald | top
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The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. Paul Cezanne | top
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If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do? Ajay Devgan | top
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. Lafcadio Hearn | top
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Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians. Ryszard Kapuscinski | top
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This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other. Wilfrid Laurier | top
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | top
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Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself. Lord Nelson | top
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We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel? Baroness Orczy | top
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. Manuel Puig | top
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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. Manfred von Richthofen | top
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French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real. Ali A. Saleh | top
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I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to. Robert Sheckley | top
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If it's not American, the French won't go see it. Norman Spinrad | top
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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. Lytton Strachey | top
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With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. Lytton Strachey | top
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Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. Ernst Toller | top
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I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. William John Wills | top
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I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. Steven Wright | top
