French sayings

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◆ ...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).

- Karl Marx99

◆ There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ 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 Twain99

◆ Language is the source of misunderstandings.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry99

◆ I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...

- Marcel Proust99

◆ People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

- Marguerite de Navarre99

◆ Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

- Gustave Flaubert99

◆ He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

- Gustave Flaubert99

◆ What's the trick to remembering that a sandwich is masculine? What qualities does it share with anyone in possession of a penis? I'll tell myself that a sandwich is masculine because if left alone for a week or two, it will eventually grow a beard.

- David Sedaris99

◆ Don't just stand there with your Eiffel Tower smile. Tell me you love me, and tell me in French.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.

- Anatole France99

◆ The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.

- The Invisible Committee99

◆ The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine

- Karl Lagerfeld99

◆ If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

- Friedrich Engels99