“ Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French. ”
- Harry Graham- Copy
- 3.4K
“ France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. ”
- Adam Michnik- Copy
- 1.2K
“ In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. ”
- Alice May Brock- Copy
- 1.8K
“ France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. ”
- Billy Wilder- Copy
- 921
“ The French are just useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery. ”
- Elton John- Copy
- 464
“ We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. ”
- Duke of Wellington- Copy
- 3K
“ Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind. ”
- Jed Babbin- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire. ”
- Charles Lindbergh- Copy
- 129
“ Politician: From the Greek "poly" Hence "polytetien," a person of two or more faces. ”
- Martin Pitt- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. ”
- Lady Marguerite Blessington- Copy
- 2.3K
“ GALAHAD: Is there someone else up there we could talk to? FRENCH GUARD: No! Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time. ”
- Monty Python- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 1.9K
“ France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.7K
“ France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. ”
- Billy Wilder- Copy
- 3.9K
“ France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.". ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
- 1.5K
“ How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries. ”
- James French- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. ”
- Charles V- Copy
- 172
“ If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of Macdonald's, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture. ”
- Alice Thompson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 300
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