703 French Quotes for You to Enjoy

I was born in Pondicherry. Both my parents are French. They met in Pondicherry in the '70s, got married, and stayed back in India. Kalki Koechlin

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In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads. Karen Maitland

Family Think Slightly Though Members Kings Counted Heads French Than Family Members Fewer Middle Middle Ages Ages English Actually

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. Karl Lagerfeld

Teacher School Never Had French Self-Taught German English Even Hardly

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could. Kate Beckinsale

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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me. Kate Beckinsale

Great Me Pressure Reading Took Books States Would Would-Be Admit Russian Could Through Studied Written Spoiled Major French Read Were Getting Oxford Double Languages Many Novels Originally United United States University

As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French. Kate Williams

Spend Books Gazing Latin Would-Be Archives Days French Documents Historians Account Train Handwriting Arts Letters Early Medieval

Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant. Katherine Langford

Revolution Kind Poignant Written French French Revolution Era Anything

Americans and French are notoriously monolingual, especially earlier generations. Language is a sense of pride in both cultures. I think that the French and Americans are like brothers or sisters who are so similar that they irritate one another. Kathleen Flinn

Pride Language Sense Think Brothers Similar Both Generations Like French Another Cultures Sisters American Irritate Who Earlier

There is an old story that says that Julia Child dropped a chicken on the floor when she was filming 'The French Chef.' And then - that, in fact, is not true. She just, you know, dropped some potatoes she was trying to flip in a pan. Kathleen Flinn

You Old Says Some Potatoes Fact True Dropped Know French She Chef Julia Chicken Child Trying Just In Fact Story Then Old Story Flip Floor Filming Pan

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree). Katie Hopkins

The expat life was a good one: There was my French boyfriend. My bright two-bedroom flat in Islington. My wine at lunch. I had a 'go bag' packed with loose linens and mosquito repellent - I was ready to be flung to the outer edges of the world at a moment's notice. It was all intrigue and adventure. Katy Tur

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French. Kellan Lutz

Learning Amazing Books Some Finish Also French Doing Stone Many

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers. Kelly Miller

Army Enemy Giving Our Corps Guns Superiority Generous Over French Were Artillery Confident Personnel Us Start Assistance

I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons. Kelly Wearstler

Type Once Though Sons French Make While Toast

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. Kenneth Baker

Big Distinction Between French Said Always Intellectual Intelligent English

I met a Shanghai photographer who finds these old streets and matches the French names to what they are today. I was able to find my grandfather's block, and just walking the same streets and finding his house was deeply moving. I finally felt connected to China. Kevin Kwan

Today Old Met Finally Photographer Find Finding Finds Able Shanghai Names House French Felt Matches Block His Walking Same Just Just Walking China Moving Grandfather Who Connected Deeply Streets

The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967. Kevin Macdonald

When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics. Kim Raver

I do not think it is a coincidence that young people gravitated toward populist voices in the French election and that the two issue positions where Donald Trump and young voters seem to agree most - global engagement and trade - are rooted in populism. Kristen Soltis Anderson

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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

Great Marriage Women World Treat Great Deal Adultery Relations Sexes Would About Allow Generally Between French Deal After Which Lovers Public English Many Novels Things Consequently

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done. Lalla Ward

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese. Larry Ellison

Art French Got Impressionism Modern Going Modern Art Converted Japanese Century European Homes Start Basically Museums

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