French Quotes

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me ...

This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that on...

He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounde...

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superi...

An old walrus-faced waiter attended to me; he had the knack of pouring the coffee and the hot milk f...

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did...

Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with ...

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “...

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de...

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntle...

We are not our own light.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had cr...

You know what politique is? It is the French word for a lie. Kdoub! Politique! When you hear the Fre...

There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at th...

(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser)At the chapel door he [a priest associated with...

Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie,Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie,Amour veut t...

O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht giebt.Sie wußtens nicht und habens jeden Falls– sein Wandeln, se...

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

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some o...

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

Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the wor...

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, v...

Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.

I should point out, creating one's own style, as much as is required to illustrate one of the aspect...

So it was perfectly possible that there were men who liked shopping, men who understood exactly what...

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongu...

Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garli...

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it...

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est not...

Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming ...

The essence and value of the law lies in its stability and durability (...), in its “relative eterni...

Hauriou, became a crown witness for us when he confirmed this connection in 1916, in the midst of WW...

On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition...

High heels? Painful pleasure.

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Ang...

What's the trick to remembering that a sandwich is masculine? What qualities does it share with anyo...

Back in New York I took full advantage of my status as a native speaker. I ran my mouth to shop cler...

Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd a...

Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis...

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the...

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

Sunday lay so heavily in the air as to become almost nauseating. Maigret used to claim openly, half ...

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

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve;Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit

The French cook we open tins.

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

...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among ot...

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---...

What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It’s such a b...