General French Sayings

#1. Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

Daniel Boulud

#2. Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again.

Zig Ziglar

#3. Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

Gautama Buddha

#4. My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

Susan Sontag

#5. We don't need more #contentmarketing, we need more relevant content.

Jason Miller

#6. You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should
sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

William Shakespeare

#7. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

Oliver Goldsmith

#8. I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant as always at the discomfiture of their former friends, and transposing into their own precise terms our mistier notions from across the Channel, foretold revolution and civil

Evelyn Waugh

#9. To the French, [le plaisir] is a part of the general fearless and joyful contact with life.

Edith Wharton

#10. I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

Bernardo Bertolucci

#11. An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

John C. Hawkes

#13. The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

Gilbert White

#14. The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.

Mark Zero

#15. I do no damage. This is damage, this."
He picked up a paper from Camille's desk. "I can't read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself.

Hilary Mantel

#16. Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

Izabella Scorupco

#17. You cannot cure racism with more racism.

Edwin A. Locke

#18. Charlie Hebdo has been sued a good dozen times by the General Alliance against Racism and for Respect of French and Christian Identity (AGRIF), an organization of Catholic fundamentalists who long maintained close ties with the National Front.

Charb

#19. Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived.

Stephen Clarke