Quotes of: French-revolution Keyword

Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

Rob Lowe

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

Stendhal

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

Thomas Keller

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

Thomas Piketty

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Karl Lagerfeld

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.

Li Keqiang

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Lytton Strachey

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

Marcel Carne

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Mahatma Gandhi

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Sean Connery

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

Alan Jay Lerner

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