703 French Quotes for You to Enjoy

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame. Pamela Druckerman

Funny Government Satire Blame Gone Punch Punch Line Rarely Wrong Unspoken French Line Irrevocably Natives Even Things

Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?' Pamela Meyer

Me You Trust Cooking Book Coffee Husband Honey Meet Email Say Okay Focused About Date Could No-One Since Like French Wrote How Person Get Maybe Anymore Deception Wants Speaking Even Starbucks They Say Ever

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. Pankaj Mishra

German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature. Pankaj Mishra

First Nationalism Late Prestige Writers French Reaction French Literature Were Dominance German Uphold Literary Literature Century Then

I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out. Parker Harris

Out Computers Obsessed Also French Became Coming Math Up Grew Loved Literature Loving English English Literature Apple Apple II Actually

I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level. Patrick Bamford

History Chemistry Biology General Studies French Did Level

'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal. Patrick Collison

You Entrepreneur Word Long Parents Whatever Seem Seemed Seems Something Like French Because Normal Fancy Your Aspire

I love Italy, and that's where I make my own shoes. But the French really do respect designers. Italy is totally different; footwear is an industry. The shoes are all about craft and luxury. French shoes are more about straight lines, and they are way more geometric. Patrick Cox

Love Respect Luxury Shoes Own Way Totally About My Own More Footwear French Make Industry Geometric Lines Italy Craft Where Different Straight Really Designers

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. Patrick Geddes

Day Every Day World School Plant Will Every Our Summer Focal Focal Point Entire Civilized Point Civilized World Instead Merely French Least Subjects Intend Capital Next Many

I sincerely think that firing Roger Lemerre was the easiest solution. There had to be a guilty party, and it was him. He was the ideal prey. He had his share of responsibility like everybody else, like the French FA who organised friendly matches at the other end of the world, but the actors - the players - have the greatest share of it. Patrick Vieira

World Responsibility Party Think Other Everybody Everybody Else Else Easiest Guilty Solution Prey Had Share He Firing Ideal Sincerely Like French Him Greatest Matches His End Friendly End Of The World Roger Organised Who Actor Players

I enjoyed playing for the national team, the French national team, because I think France gave me a lot and gave my family a lot, so to wear the French national team shirt was really good, and I wore it with pride. Patrick Vieira

Good Family Me Pride National Think Gave France Wear French Because Lot Shirt National Team Wore Really Team Enjoyed Playing

It had never been a decision to choose between the French national team or the Senegalese national team because I was growing up in France and playing in the French youth national team, so it was something really normal. Patrick Vieira

We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really copied Bob Dylan when I was younger: a little bit of Bob Dylan or a lot of Bob Dylan and the French symbolist poets - I liked how they dressed - and Catholic school boys. Patti Smith

School Style Young Say Bit Phrase Dressed Poets Liked French Catholic Catholic School Boy How Lot Dylan Little Little Bit Icon Younger Bob Bob Dylan Really Copied

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

Pure Clear French Verse Landscape

I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on. Paul Muldoon

Ninth Poetry French Read Lot Irish Century

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything. Paulo Dybala

Speak French Anything Mean English

A British actor will savour every syllable of a Shakespearean line, while a French actor will drive to the end of a sentence or a speech with a propulsive rhythm: the thing you never say to a French actor is, 'Take your time.' Peter Brook

My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish. Peter Greenaway

If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers. Peter Mayer

Work Failure You Writing Words Revolution Publish Other Books Characters Be Real Brothers About Seems He Written French Well Reader French Revolution Because Context Real In Other Words Whether Serious Publisher

When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person. Peter Sis

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. Peter Ustinov

Good Enemies French Friends Being Resist British

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order. Peter York

I work, play and do everything in French. Philippe Falardeau

Work Everything French Play

The French league is clearly developing. It is really pleasing to see. Paris, for me, is above everyone else in France. When they come for you, it is always attractive. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Me You Else Everyone Everyone Else France Pleasing See Above Paris Developing Clearly League Come French Attractive Always Really

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