French Quotes

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright

Time, Breakfast, Restaurant

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Johnny Depp

Women, Men, Power

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Charles V

Women, God, Men

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn

American, Ambition, Married

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
Steve Martin

Everything, Different, Word

The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Everything, Complain

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King

Language, Romance, Dirt

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce

Religion, Place, State

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Living, Move

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
Dave Barry

Fat, Bag, Crawling

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Him, Eyes, Anxiety

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Single, Book

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Stendhal

Earth, Present, Race

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
Stendhal

Ways, Distance, Fifty

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
Boris Johnson

Play, Between, Rest

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper

Character, Nothing, After

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Perfect, Feminine

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
Desmond Tutu

Team, Soccer, Orchestra

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.
Michelle Obama

Work, Talk, Ideas

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

Rude, Write, Decided

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb Colton

Revolution, American, Events

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Paul Cezanne

Clear, Pure, Landscape

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.
Christopher Hitchens

Nice, Different, Big

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pride, English, Vanity

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien Leigh

Age, Good, Learning

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
Vivien Leigh

Love, Family, Parents

There's always something fishy about the French.
Noel Coward

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'
Tommy Cooper

Said, Yes, Asked

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
Rick Santorum

Freedom, Before, America

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard

Money, American, Ideas

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