Top 100 French Love Quotes
#1. Every year there's a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Getting on the jury is very competitive in France. Not because the French love cinema, but because they love to judge.
Craig Ferguson
#2. Ten cooks' shops! ... and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ... had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.
Laurence Sterne
#3. How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.
Jeff Smith
#4. There is of course one thing that the French love more than anything else: a revolution. They literally cannot get enough.
@Queen_UK
#5. I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
Bob Schaffer
#6. True love is when your partner will pull into a drive-through at two in the morning and not judge you as you eat french fries with a side of both strawberry thickshake and coffee.
Sean Kennedy
#7. I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
Rain
#8. I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in love with every single one of his actresses. And that's also something that's kind of normal in the acting business, because everything is based on desire, one way or the other.
Lou Doillon
#9. I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
Eva Green
#10. People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Harvey Weinstein
#11. We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
David Amram
#12. My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
Henry Rollins
#13. I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.
James Mercer
#14. When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.
Alice Waters
#15. Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
Dawn French
#16. I love fashion because it can change to suit your mood. I'm very drawn to classic silhouettes, menswear-inspired pieces, and anything that feels a little French. I'm also inspired by Brit girl style.
Sophia Bush
#17. He has 'le coeur comme un artichaud'. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' 'Oui. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.
Poppy Z. Brite
#18. School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.
Simone Weil
#19. I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
Robert Winston
#20. I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
Mary J. Blige
#21. I'm interested in finding sounds and ideas that help bring the audience into the world that we [moviemakes] are all trying to create. Sometimes that's with synthesizers, and sometimes that's with French horns. I love using all of them, depending on the scenario.
Joseph Trapanese
#22. I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#23. I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
Olga Kurylenko
#24. Je t'aime tant, je ne peux pas trouver la fin de mon amour pour toi
(I love you so thar I can't find the end of my love for you)
Miguel El Portugues
#25. What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.
Thomas French
#26. What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#27. Puss hopped down from the couch and rummaged in Mark's closet until he found a black leather belt. This he looped along his shoulder, around his waist, and then clasped together. I'm off to make war, so that you may have love.
Zechariah Barrett
#28. There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.
Emmanuelle Beart
#29. The only thing that lasts is love, even when it's gone.
Ellen Sussman
#30. And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her?
I dumped him.
Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough.
I promise you that wasn't it.
Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough.
Four hundred.
Not enough.
Miranda July
#31. We hit every jazz and blues club on and off Bourbon Street, dancing and drinking until we girls were drunk enough to go with the boys to the strip clubs which outnumbered all other businesses in the French Quarter. Here is where my solution unfolded.
Darwun St. James
#32. Girls fascinate in different ways. Try 'em one day. Tapped on the pane, and asked in French if she'd save my life by falling in love with me.
David Mitchell
#33. Maybe that was why the French called orgasms "las petites morts": because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.
Nenia Campbell
#34. I found the guy! After more than twenty years of being single and jerked around and cheated on and alone, I found my soul mate. Pardon my French, but you think I give a shit about the flowers?
Lauren Weisberger
#35. I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.
Eva Green
#36. I will love you, my English rose, and you will fill my French dreams
Melissa De La Cruz
#37. I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
Dolly Parton
#40. I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#41. The price of love is only love, ... one must love if one desires to be loved.
Honore D'Urfe
#42. Max,' I said, looking up at him, 'I love the Russian heritage you guys are so willing to share, but I'm not so thrilled with the French.'
'What?' His brows lowered. 'We're not French.'
'Great. So the next time you feel the need to kiss me, keep your tongue out of my mouth!
Shannon Delany
#44. I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
Daniel Boulud
#45. If I had to ask him to ask me, it wasn't going to work as an expression of concern. Like when you ask someone if they love you - if you have to ask them, they don't. Or not enough. Not the way you want them to.
Nicci French
#46. I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty!
Megan Hilty
#47. You're the answer to the prayer she no longer has the faith to speak.
Sophia French
#49. The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#51. My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.
Wynter Gordon
#52. I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.)
for:
the "Work" by which (it is said) we emerge from the great crises (love, grief) cannot be liquidated hastily: for me, it is accomplished only in and by writing.
Roland Barthes
#53. I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.
Daniel Boulud
#54. I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian ... How can you get bored?
Quincy Jones
#55. I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
Andrea Bocelli
#56. Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
Tana French
#57. I laid a hand on his cheek; it was so bright that for a second I thought it was burning me, a pure painless fire.
Tana French
#58. I don't love you," he ground out, biting her lip.
Sophie wound her arms around his neck, her fingers in his hair as she kissed him gently. "I don't love you either," she whispered, holding him close and rocking the last ebbs of pleasure out of him. "I don't love you either.
Kitty French
#59. Strangely, producing "Parisienne" was very long and difficult because the people who mainly finance films didn't understand the idea of a young foreign girl having a good time in Paris. They wanted to see her suffering and poor, and definitely not falling in love with three French men!
Danielle Arbid
#60. The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance.
Joan Fontaine
#61. I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.
French Montana
#62. This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#63. 'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.
Susan Vreeland
#64. In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
Alexandre Dumas
#65. She might not be able to fix the
past, but she was willing to spend a
lifetime showing him what love could
be: beautiful not ugly, uplifting not
destructive, and more precious than
diamonds.
Kitty French
#66. Please, hate me if you have to, never speak to me again, but don't settle for someone you don't love because I hurt you
Katherine Allred
#67. I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
Marjane Satrapi
#68. I love the French language ... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
Oscar Wilde
#69. (The French psychoanalyst Lacan suggested that the Christian injunction 'love thy neighbour as thyself' must be ironic because people hate themselves.)
Adam Phillips
#70. You taste so good. I love making you come with my mouth." - Bryce Van Der Linden (French Kiss, Unbearable Passion, #2)
Scarlett Avery
#71. As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
Bryan Batt
#72. I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.
Hector Elizondo
#73. A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#74. I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood ... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.
Michel De Montaigne
#75. When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them
Tana French
#76. Love is like riding or speaking French. If you don't learn it young, it's hard to get the trick of it later.
Julian Fellowes
#77. We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing.
Manuel Valls
#79. Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.
Tana French
#81. I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#82. I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.
Jackie French
#83. Seducing Sophie had been a mutual pleasure and she'd proved herself an excellent and very willing pupil, but when it came to freeing her he'd failed dismally. He'd freed her from one cheating man, only for her to fall in love with another who couldn't or wouldn't give her what she deserved.
Kitty French
#84. If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried
Josh Stern
#85. Not interested in love or money. Interested in french fries.
Lauren Leto
#87. I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.
Tana French
#88. It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre, meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit, meaning that it costs nothing. Free thought, free speech, free love: the English word that Arthur was so fond of obscures the price of things.
Emma Donoghue
#89. I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.
Lawrence Durrell
#90. English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing.
Anthony Lane
#91. I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
Vincent Cassel
#92. Cuisine is a universal and mixed-race love marriage, in which man sublimates a place and a culture.
Marc Veyrat
#93. You fit me, Kara," he said. "You know every fucked up part of me, and you still see someone you can love.
Kitty French
#94. I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.
Stephanie Szostak
#95. And I wanted this girl who was like no girl I had ever known, wanted her not in spite of her moods and her secret bruises and her sad attempts at artifice but because of them, because of them all.
Tana French
#96. For the love of God! He howled. Could all of the straight people get out of the fucking closets, please? Gay men coming through!
Kat French
#97. I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.
Olga Kurylenko
#98. Sunday's my day off, where I eat whatever I want. I don't not let myself have something. I do love French fries and bread.
Ashley Tisdale
#99. When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.
Michael R. French
