French Quotes

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

That guys. Sideburns. You like him?"My back squirms. "You've asked me that before.""What I meant was, " he says, flustered. "Your feelings haven't changed? Since you've been

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette.

The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.

I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise

If only stupid people could have the mere intelligence to shut up while discussing serious matter, the world would go along so much better !

It is not the business of a Queen to be human.

High heels? Painful pleasure.

He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops.

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of those who go with the flow?

I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.' 'Sometimes?' she added derisively. 'Quite often, ' he tempered.

You have to hold on and be patient. Pain lasts for a while, but you must leave room for happiness when you find it.

Have I..." I venture, terrified of the potential answer. "Have I gone mad?" "No, no, no." She says. "Okay, oui, peut-être, that depends. Maybe you have gone a little mad, and only for a little spell.

My grandpa, unlike Jarod Kintz, was an Elder. Now that he's dead and gone, he's a ghost French wizard. And no one knows what French wizards are good at…

I loved him, you know, ' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life.

One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible, ’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating.

And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her

A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.

The man of the future will be young or he will not be.

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature.

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.

I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate, you’ll have company!

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives

What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It’s such a bother that it must be masculine.

I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.

The only way he could truly stick out in New Orleans was if he were walking down the street on fire.

The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new.

Toulouse Street ran one way toward the Mississippi River. Jackson looked over [Imogene's] head into one of those famous New Orleans courtyards, full of lush foliage, mossy brick, secrets, and wonder.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.

The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.

If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried

If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.

Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you

I was ecstatic when 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.

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed!

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.