#french

Speaking the French culture is so much easier on the palate than speaking the language. It makes you sophisticated to talk with your mouth full. ↗

— Bauvard

#french #funny #humor #funny

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #irony #language #humor

... far be it from a French man to interfere with love. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#french #french-men #french-people #love #love-story

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#french-fries #government #labels #freedom

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#entire #french #make #movies #paris

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#bars #eat #french #french fries #fries

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period. ↗

— Jason Chaffetz

#does #federal #french #good #good place

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. ↗

— George Canning

#asking #bottoms #cent #clap #commerce

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers. ↗

— Hanoi Hannah

#broadcast #during #french #had #idea

...because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive politeness. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#proust #death