French Quotes - page 7

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. (Ian Hamilton Finlay)
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics. View quote
Ina Garten
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. View quote
Patrick Geddes
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
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. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. (Auguste Escoffier)
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. View quote
Manfred von Richthofen
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory. View quote
Martina Hingis
I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall. View quote
Holly Madison
Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war. View quote
Mark Hoppus
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand. View quote
Albert Maltz
I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French. View quote
Anna Held
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language. View quote
Anthony Geary
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. View quote
Audie Murphy
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)
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? View quote
Ajay Devgan
I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one. View quote
Alain Prost
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere. View quote
Alain Prost
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. View quote
Branford Marsalis