#french

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#gambler #gamblers #greatest #must #problem

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. ↗

— King Charles V

#german #god #horse #i #italian

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that. ↗

— Brian Cox

#cinema #create #deals #egalitarian #equality

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#french #hesitate #right #secret #speaking

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#being #daughter #english #father #felt

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dubious #either #evil #existence #extremely

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#british #destruction #french #further #germans

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#feminine #french #life #like #masculine

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#behalf #cannot #emotional #emotions #english

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#far #french #know #like #means