702 French Quotes for You to Enjoy

Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British. Helmut Schmidt

Democracy Independence Out About Only Directions Point Main Developments Ideas French Got Coming Years Existed End American Dutch May Different Different Directions Declaration Centuries Mankind Many Europeans Started British

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people. Janine di Giovanni

Beautiful God Good People World Most Beautiful Joke Feeling Country France Guilty Neighbors Tell About Something Had He Beautiful Country Fair Most French Make French People Up Ended Often Much Created Painful Europeans

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was? Jesmyn Ward

Me Thought Men Free Others Ancestry Tell Immigrants Gulf Gulf Coast About Colonists Free Men Color Proportion Like French Always Understood Tangle American African Native Native Americans Spanish Might Coast Who Many Slaves British

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies. Linda Colley

Old Power Past Roman Empire Britons Benign Rested About Rather Excess Empire Armies French Catholic Because Builders Trade Were Than Roman Different In The Past Spanish Themselves Convinced Sea

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. Madeleine Albright

You Genius French Understand Europe

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people. Marine Le Pen

A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise. Mark Levin

Home Country Conservatives Otherwise Spending Pretend Constantly Beats Massive French Democrats Praising Go Go Home Up Contributing While Republican Who

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.' Naomi Campbell

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community. Nicole Ari Parker

You White Community New French Quarter Mixing New Orleans African-American Acknowledge Races Hard Whole Play Orleans Set Creole

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies. Norm Dicks

Later Aircraft Over French Industry Years Years Ago German Commercial Spanish Companies European Large Founded Compete British

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. Pankaj Mishra

Political Revolution French French Revolution Greatest Intellectual Breakthrough Enlightenment

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Paul Auster

Work Food Money Own Translation Pay Earn Sideline Way Out Kind Spilled Table My Own Poetry Poets Put Contemporary French Sort Always Bread Interested Translating

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over. Richard Attenborough

Great You Man Constitution Rights Book Writing Independence Men Think Great Book He Over Know Involved French Wrote Greatest Commercial American Declaration Century Paine Who Tom Englishman Lived Ever

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

Imitate Distance Ways Russians French Always Years Fifty

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything! Steve Martin

Funny Word Everything Those French Boy Different

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. Tom Brady

Time Food Cooking Better Big Think Bit Some Eating Pot More Like French Been Years Pasta Sisters Tastes Bread Place Spaghetti Little Little Bit Room Warm Works Sauce

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves. Wilfrid Laurier

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored? Quincy Jones

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish. Adelaide Kane

Mother Father Half Side Bit Glasgow French Am Irish Scottish

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting. Adrian Lyne

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