(222 quotes found)
“It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“I would have loved it - without the French”
D.H. Lawrence
“Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.”
Clarence Nash
“The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.”
Will Ferguson
“Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.”
G. K. Chesterton
“If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!”
Franz Kafka
“You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He IS French, people.”
Conan O'Brien
“The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.”
“Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist”
Friedrich Engels
“I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat”
John Randolph
