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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
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
— Hanoi Hannah
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.
— Felipe Esparza
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
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
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
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
