594 Quotes About French

Caro's eyes slid longingly over the display, the pralines, truffles, amandines, and nougats, the éclairs, florentines, liqueur cherries, frosted almonds.

It's a Baron de Sigognac XO."Guy swirled his glass and stuck his nose inside it as Lucien had done. He moved the glass away and then went back down for another sniff."Christmas-cake spiced fruits, vanilla- I'd even say custard- with hints of rose and violet," he said.

Lector, "alegría, saludo y salud", decían antaño nuestros antepasados cuando acababan un cuento. | Historietas, cuentos y fábulas - Marqués de Sade.

Être homosexuel n’est pas plus anormal que d’être gaucher.

Soit vous êtes homophobes, soit vous êtes humains - être à la fois humain et homophobe est incompatible.

She doesn’t have a ring on each finger, or a big diamond on each ring.She doesn’t wear a gold watch that costs as much as a fancy car.In fact, she doesn’t own a fancy car.She doesn’t carry an enormous designer bag.But she might have a newspaper under her arm.She might mention Sartre or Foucault in a conversation.It’s her personality that sparkles and nothing else: the signs of intellectual wealth.

I have studied many languages-French, Spanish and a little Italian, but no one told me that Statistics was a foreign language.

Knowing people can mean so many things. It's like books: there are plenty of gradations between the books one has read and those one hasn't. There are the books one has heard of, those with a plot or style we already know by heart, those we can tell by their cover, those whose jacket copy we've read. Those we want to read and those we never will. One can also read a book and forget it -- in fact, that's my specialty -- or just skim through it. It's the same with people.

Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.