Quotes on French

“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”

Mark Twain

“Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!”

Albert Camus

“Etre dans le vent, c'est avoir le destin des feuilles mortes.”

Jean Guitton

“Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.”

Michel de Montaigne

“I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior.”

Tana French

“Heard straight from Napoleon’s mouth himself,” I say. “Champagne! In victory we deserve it, and in defeat we need it.”

Rebecca Rosenberg

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

André Gide