#french

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#brilliant #civilization #departed #each #economic

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#choose #french #french literature #la #literature

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. ↗

— Paul Auster

#america #awhile #back #become #been

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available. ↗

— Michael Baden

#arsenic #available #because #before #british

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#between #big #distinction #english #french

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cooks #could #each #eating #edible

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#anarchy #city #coloured #elated #english

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom. ↗

— Boris Becker

#cafe #days #exciting #freedom #french

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#mayonnaise #place #religion #sauces #serve

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#beautiful #composing #french #living #paris