French Quotes
They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.
A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.
I promised myself that we’d have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.
. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race, and against the legislator of the universe, which is n
It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.” “Right after I get my head examined.
I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.
Impossible, '" Matthew said."'Impossible n'est pas français, ' Ysabeau said, her tone tart as vinegar. 'And it certainly was not a word in your father's vocabulary.
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.
The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.
Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.
How's Alison getting on?'Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.
He told me and Rafe to stay put in case you came home, burn the note and get hot water and disinfectant and bandages rea
Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.
He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.
Look.” He stepped closer, his voice lowered to a gruff murmur, and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to meet his gaze – which just made her want to stretch up and kiss him.
Gunfire cracked around them. “Just warning shots, ” he yelled. “How do you know?” “We’re not dead.
Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.
I should've known the eyes. Wide, bright blue, and something about the delicate arc of the lids: a cat's slant, a pale jeweled girl in an old painting, a secret.
You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.
Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the words were not releasing her. 'It's intolerable you know
He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.
If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.
It’s not an ordinary cash wash, Jake, ” Jean smiled. “C’est très spécial... et il a un secret!”“I understood special and secret, ” Jake said. “That’s about it.
No way, that would kill my diet for the week. I don't know how you can stand to eat so unhealthy, Quinn. Just consider it an amuse-biatch.
We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow, " he says after a minute. Then, "Wow, " again.I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.
Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.
