Quotes of: French-people Keyword

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Wives and Daughters

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

A Wrinkle in Time

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

P.D.Q. Bach

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

Peter Mayle

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

Roy Blunt

I think what's very French is the mixture of comedy with intimacy and a kind of reflectiveness. For U.S. audiences, the nearest thing is Woody Allen.

Romain Duris

I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.

Ronald Frame

Flambé - done beside a table covered in crisp starched linen in a French restaurant: a method to burn food and money simultaneously.

Scott Archer Jones

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Stendhal

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

Tricia Helfer

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

Thomas Keller

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

Karl Lagerfeld

Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day.

Kym Whitley

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.

Lexa Doig

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

Monica Bellucci

I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.

Michael Chang

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

Michel Hazanavicius

I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

Michael Ignatieff

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

Simon Cowell

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

Nguyen Cao Ky

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

Boris Becker