Top French Quotes
The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe.
Bill O'Brien
The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
Thomas Sankara
In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.
Scott Thompson
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
Cyril Cusack
I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.
Anatoly Chubais
Adam Michnik 
Paul Cezanne 
Jacques Chirac 
Clare Short 
Mario Batali 
Edward Hopper All French Quotes
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
Lafcadio Hearn 
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One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
Franz Schubert
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
Warren Christopher
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The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.
Mercy Otis Warren
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My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
Rory Bremner
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There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.
Jonny Greenwood
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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Marilyn Hacker
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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner
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