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I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to. — Gilles Marini

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death") — Cornell Woolrich

French pedicures make your toes look like fingers. You look grabby. French pedicures are for man thieves. — Helen Ellis

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. — Pierre Salinger

When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug. — Carine Roitfeld

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. — Sophie Marceau

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. — Horace Walpole

It's normal that people expect more from the French team, — Patrick Vieira

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. — Mark Twain

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.' — Carine Roitfeld

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one. — Charles Caleb Colton

French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine. — Carine Roitfeld

You chose to come to Paris, of all places, Mencheres replied.
So what? Got something against the French? — Jeaniene Frost

it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin. — Nicci French

The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists. — Cary McNeal

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers. — Hanoi Hannah

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other. — Mario Batali

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries. — Robert Kiyosaki

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. — Ernest Hemingway,

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. — Josephine De La Baume

And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other. — Delta Burke

I am Parisian. I don't love the French. — Carine Roitfeld

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK. — Tana French

I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty. — Tana French

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon. — Jay Leno

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

Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries. — Eric Schlosser

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

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945) — Adolf Hitler

There's optimistic, and then there's plain crazy. — Tana French

Because he's just so, so," Peter paused looking for the right word, "so French! — Jack Lewis Baillot

The French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail. — Kip S. Thorne

a cipher, composed entirely of the jumbled reflections of what he thinks other people want to see. — Tana French

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. — Alaina Huffman

Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due. — Hilary Mantel

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. — Mahatma Gandhi

We've become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we're so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it. — Tana French

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

You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone. — Tana French

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life. — Baruj Benacerraf

daren't open my sandwich — Moll French

Persinette, let down your hair. — Charlotte-Rose De Caumont De La Force

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years. — Alison Lohman

Is French kissing in France just called kissing? — Peter Kay

I like French fries, I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie. — Gayle Forman

If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so. — Rachel L. Demeter

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France. — James Cronin

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind. — George S. Patton

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana. — French Montana

I don't know why I feel so crazy ... I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha. — Dawn French

Have you met the French? My ... GOD they know how to party! — Steven Moffat

Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach. — Carnie Wilson

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it. — Dawn French

I'm French," Kingsley said. "I'm asking about your religion." "That is my religion. — Tiffany Reisz

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. — Wang Leehom

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable. — Andrew Mehrtens

The French are very individualistic. — Eric Rohmer

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. — Marilyn French

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe. — John Dos Passos

Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable. — Dorie Greenspan

...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman — John Fowles

Greenwich got the nod because 72 per cent of the world's commerce depended on British sea-charts - and because it annoyed the French intensely. — Richard Happer

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing. — Oliver Jackson-Cohen

I've got good psychopath sensors now. It's like an allergy: you get exposed once, from then on you're supersensitized." She — Tana French

I work, play and do everything in French. — Philippe Falardeau

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France. — Henri Bourassa

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. — Steve Martin

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type. — Gertrude Atherton

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive. — John French Sloan

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home. — Jackie French

I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy. — Laurie Halse Anderson

If Giggs was French, Pires or myself would have been on the bench. — Zinedine Zidane

French fries are like Crocs. You know you shouldn't, but your life is pretty much over anyway. — Jim Gaffigan

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries. — Denis Leary

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.' — Carine Roitfeld

Sometimes I take off my skully and wear glasses, so I've gotta brush and make sure my hairline is straight. — French Montana

God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut. — Hilary Mantel

Everything belonging to a loved one is precious. — Beaumarchais

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying — Alan Furst

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. — Georgann Low

The Chinese call it woo
The French les brumes
The British
Fog
L A
Smog
Heaven
Cellar Door — Jack Kerouac

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir

Excuse me for just a sec, I've got eczema around my nubbins. — Renee French

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. — Paul Valery

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money. — French Montana

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen. — Jacques Myard

I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom. — Hilary Mantel

I even watched Mulholland Drive in French ... it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either. — Tom Dunne

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist. — Felipe Esparza

In the beginning was the Mother, the Word began a new era, one we have come to call Patriarchy. — Marilyn French

We are sitting in a garden in a French town. — Paulo Coelho

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. — Horace Walpole

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

English physicians kill you, the French let you die. — Charles Lamb

In Paris you're always surrounded by French people. — David Sedaris

This guy eluded the French police ... in loafers?
-Chief Anderson — Dan Brown

I love the French horn. — Vanessa Williams