#french

The French cook; we open tins. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#french #open

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#asked #even #forces #french #i

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#beginning #behaviour #chance #end #french

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#consider #even #family #french #i

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#clearly #diction #early #early age #english

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet. ↗

— Jean-Marie Messier

#ever #frenchman #i #i am #meet

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead. ↗

— P.D.Q. Bach

#humor #humor

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. ↗

— Audie Murphy

#any #could #freedom #french #melody

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#especially #extreme #famous #french #i

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000) ↗

— Olivier Weber

#fiction #french-literature #literature #love #painting