French Phrases Quotes

#1. The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Fred Allen

#2. The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.

Eleanor Catton

#3. The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.

Max Horkheimer

#4. (The Francophile and radical John Stuart Mill had noted, not long after the Commune fell, in a letter to an English union leader, "an infirmity of the French mind" - that of "being led away by phrases, and treating abstractions as if they were realities which have a will and exert active power.")

Anonymous

#5. I now understand why people sometimes describe the air as 'bitter cold'. The cold is not bitter. They are bitter about the cold.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#6. Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

Heywood Broun

#7. I said that I was gonna smash him in three rounds, and that's what I did.

David Haye

#8. Anyone who knows me knows I can be a control freak with things I love doing. I love doing fashion and I love writing, so everything I've done I'm really involved with, so it's not really work to me because I'm enjoying it.

Lauren Conrad

#9. People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

E. V. Lucas

#10. A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

John Irving

#11. After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.

Yasunari Kawabata

#12. When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

Ken Buck

#13. After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Robert Aickman