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

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
Thomas Sankara

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

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.
Kelly Miller

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
Pierre Salinger

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
Gilbert White

The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.
Bill O'Brien

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.
Lytton Strachey

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
Martin C. Smith

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
Robert Morgan

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
C. L. R. James

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
Ahmed Ben Bella

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
Bernard Pivot

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.
William Sanderson

The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.
Dennis Miller

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
Marcel Carne

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.
Bobby Jindal

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

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.
Cecilia Bartoli