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Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly. — Alice Childress

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

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

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

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry. — Glenn Reynolds

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

To the moon and back, English. — Kitty French

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

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

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 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

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch. — Eva Green

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

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking. — Bob Hope

I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French. — Nora Ephron

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

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it. — Nicolas Sarkozy

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

When Philip complained about the French couple building a house next to his in Cornwall, Emenike asked, 'Are they between you and the sunset? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It was as if Tutankhamen or Miss Havisham had wandered into the pub one night and started bitching about the head on the pints. — Tana French

She drinks vodka in the evening and green tea in the morning. — Anne Berest

The French have a very deep knowledge of Islam in many areas, and we can exchange views. — Tony Tan

St. Clair: So did you enjoy the book?
Anna: I did. Did you?
St. Clair: I like the author's name the best. Ba-nah-na. — Stephanie Perkins

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us. — Cyril Connolly

We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique. — Grigor Dimitrov

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes — Seth Godin

I love France. The French respect your privacy. — Margaux Hemingway

I ache for my mother. I used to think her rules were the source of all my problems. Now I have all the freedom I want and feel completely lost. — Katie French

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth. — Jerry Della Femina

I want sex with you now, but that doesn't mean I'm going to want sex with you for the rest of my life. — Kitty French

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France ... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. — Stendhal

But we once had some, we white men, in one of the islands. Not the Oui-ouis" (native name for the French), "real white men. — Andrew Lang

The Swiss are the only nation to make the Germans appear inefficient, the French undiplomatic and the Texans poor. — Paul Bilton

The more I get to know men, the more I love dogs. — Charles De Gaulle

No women allowed.'
'I'm not a woman. I'm the boss. — Jackie French

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. — Paul Cezanne

Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed — Danielle Steel

This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory. — Jeremy Clarkson

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'. — Christopher Lee

Didier. Anyway, there is a man, a printer, risking his life to make tracts that we can distribute. Maybe if we can get the French to — Kristin Hannah

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air. — Dawn French

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. — Francois Hollande

She ate with good manners, using the knife in the French way to push things onto her fork. She — Ashley Gardner

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. — Claire Denis

My father doesn't have views. He would like to, but he can't take the risk. — Hilary Mantel

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. — Jackie French

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon. — Li Na

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

I love the French horn. — Vanessa Williams

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faith is the ability to endure. — Michael R. French

In French: La Fugitive, Albertine disparue Also translated as: The Sweet Cheat Gone, Albertine Gone — Stephen Fall

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air. — Laurent Brancowitz

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives. — C.L.R. James

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times. — Charles De Gaulle

There are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion. — Gertrude Stein

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

Of all the emotions Lucien Knight had aroused in her over the last few days, the one thing she hadn't expected to feel was protective. — Kitty French

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

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

The French are very individualistic. — Eric Rohmer

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

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

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

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

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