#french

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#color #designate #developing #french #french people

The French complain of everything, and always. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#complain #everything #french

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#could #french #horrific #i #imaginative

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

— Charles V

#german #god #horse #i #italian

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#half #i #indian #life #my life

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#i #psychology #studied #took #up

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#burnt #capable #cricket #french #had

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#acknowledged #adequate #against #british #colonies

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#attracted #first #french #french women #i

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#difficult #english-speaking #french #full #many