Quotes About The French Culture

#1. When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.

Kim Raver

#2. What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.

Marilyn French

#3. In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

James Cronin

#4. This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so desirable that it's constantly faked or exaggerated, and claims that one is not a victim are met with indignation.

David French

#5. I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.

Rachel Sklar

#6. Notwithstanding the prevalent notion that the French poets are the sympathetic heirs of classic culture, it appears to me that they are not so imbued with the true classic spirit, art, and mythology as some of our English poets, notably Keats and Shelley.

William Shakespeare

#7. The spectacle of this lovely nation, with its great agricultural wealth and its cultural riches , continually stepping on its own toes, made me wonder if France suffered a kind of national neurosis

Julia Child

#8. I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there.

Charlotte Rampling

#9. I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved the people, the food, the lay of the land, the civilized atmosphere, and the generous pace of life.

Julia Child

#10. The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance.

A.A. Gill

#11. Cuisine is a universal and mixed-race love marriage, in which man sublimates a place and a culture.

Marc Veyrat

#12. I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

Leonard Mlodinow

#14. French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.

Emmanuelle Alt

#15. 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

#16. America was the attic of French culture.

Edmund White

#17. I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.
Well, let's talk Algeria then. Let's talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

Rawi Hage

#18. The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.

Maurice Dekobra

#19. The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.

Bauvard

#20. The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn't willing to take the time to get to know them and their wares, then I would not go home with the freshest legumes or cuts of meat in my basket. They certainly made me work for my supper-- but, oh, what suppers!

Julia Child

#21. Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

John Robert Colombo

#22. It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.

Julia Child

#23. I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France ... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

#24. The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.

Adam Gopnik

#25. Actually, this is an interesting question,' the instructor said. 'What is the difference between culture and law? In France, we say we are French before we are anything else.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#26. Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

Herb Ritts

#27. Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

Masaharu Morimoto

#28. The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Bernard Pivot

#29. French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#30. Annoyance has made me bilingual.

Gayle Forman

#31. I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

#32. She drinks vodka in the evening and green tea in the morning.

Anne Berest

#33. '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

#34. It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

James A. Baldwin

#35. the thing we call French culture may be due to the fact that French children can play, surrounded by the things of the past, palaces of bygone kings, statues, remembrances of history.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#36. All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

Lawrence Durrell

#37. The best way to tell whether the Norwegian is a Norwegian is to say:
"Are you Swedish?"
Regardless whether you say this in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Urdu or Swahili, he will answer:
"Swedish? Me? I'm a Norwegian!"
Then you will be able to tell.

Odd Borretzen