703 French Quotes for You to Enjoy

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions. Sophie Marceau

Emotions Say Though About Emotional Talk French Person Behalf Quite Oh Cannot English

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far. Sophie Marceau

You Like Sophisticated Know French Well Well-Educated Educated Far Means

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. Sophie Marceau

Language Think More French Than Acting English Even

When I was in college at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied international relations and French, I studied abroad in Paris for a semester. I think when you're there, you can't help but be immersed in fashion because it's such a part of the city. Stacey Bendet

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie. Stan Wawrinka

Diner Favourite French Movie Film Cons

When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down. Afterwards, you feel a little bit lonely, a bit of depression mentally. Because it's so much stress and emotion, so many people around - and then it's completely empty. Stan Wawrinka

Depression You People Win Stress Lonely Tough Big Down Bit Mentally Emotion Open Feel Like French French Open Empty Because Around Doing Up Up And Down So Many People Afterwards Title Little Little Bit Then Much Really Many

I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English. Stana Katic

Speak Three Other French Read Italian Languages English

Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot - like, in kindergarten, it was almost all French. But then I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, where we obviously spoke English all the time, so I lost the French a little bit. Stella Maxwell

Time Half Lost Side Bit Kindergarten Born Almost Spoke Almost All New Like French Obviously Lot Moved Where New Zealand Little Little Bit Then English Belgium Zealand

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision. Stephen Colbert

You Decision Father Made Long Before He Idea Name Town Like Dead French Said Always His Offend Same Going Anybody Want Wanted Us Lived

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs. Stephen Kinzer

War World Arab Following Imperialism Main Outside French Became Affairs End America Player Second World War British Second World War

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration. Steve Hanke

Control State Spent Finances Recognition Administration Following Put Most French Were Greece Pattern Century Default Creditors Started Consequence

Cinderella is older than she lets on. She's ancient. She's had work done. The Disney film was based on Charles Perreault's French story 'Cendrillon,' published in 1697. Steve Rushin

Work Older Cinderella Ancient Charles Had French She Than Done Story Disney Film Lets Based Published

Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred. Susan Holloway Scott

Fear King Hatred Feared Most French She Court How Quickly Louise Being Influence Might Turned Englishmen

'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty. Susan Vreeland

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. Sydney Smith

Women Men Three Say Sexes Clergymen French

I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives. Sylvia Plath

Myself Silence First Saw Backs See London Slowly Percent Absolute Weeping Column Red Quakers French Housewives Catholics Tan Were Shining Ban Green Orange Dusty African Banner Etc Whites Appear Found Bomb

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Writer French Am Expression

I was living in Paris for, like, a year and a half, and I couldn't speak French, so it was just hard to get a baguette or a pastry or whatever. All the stores close at 6 o'clock, and they're not very into hospitality, so it's not a convenient city. It's so pretty, though, but I was raised in Tokyo, so it was hard to understand. Tao Okamoto

Speak Half Year Whatever Living Though City Pretty Paris Hospitality Like French Understand Very Close Pastry Get Just Convenient Stores Hard Tokyo Raised

I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it. Tatiana Maslany

School Big Other Would Had Perform French Schools Make Another Always Up Improv Get Just Big Thing Wanted Against Us Team Elementary Thing Things Extension

A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies. Ted Sarandos

Our Projects Animation French Lot Production Companies

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. Terry Eagleton

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