Quotes of: French-people Keyword

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

Eddi Reader

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

Goldwin Smith

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

Gilbert White

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

Alexa Chung

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

Edward Herrmann

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

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

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

James Cronin

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

Emmanuelle Beart

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

Edward Sapir

Energy doesn't communicate in English, French, Chinese or Swahili, but it does speak clearly

Elaine Seiler

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

She’s a serial kisser. I think her parents are French.

C.C. Hunter

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

Carine Roitfeld

When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.

Carine Roitfeld

The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

Ira Glass

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

E. V. Lucas

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Bernard Pivot

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

Gilles Marini