T Quotes
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“The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.”
Source: Paris to the Moon
“The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting things, and for speaking well.”
Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)
“The French Code for cheese is ALIVE. The American Code for cheese, on the other hand, is DEAD.”
“The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.”
“The French complain of everything, and always.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.”
“The French cook; we open tins.”
Source: Another Sheaf
“The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“The French courage proceeds from vanity”
“The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.”
“The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all been on the wrong track - ("Jane Brown's Body")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“The French don't snack. They will tear off the endo of a fres baguette (which, if it's warm, it's practically impossible to resist) and eat it as they leave the boulangerie. And that's usually all you will see being consumed on the street. Compare that with the public eating and drinking that goes on in America: pizza, hot dogs, nachos, tacos, heroes, potato chips, sandwiches, jerricans of coffee, half-gallon buckets of Coke (Diet, of cours) and heaven knows what else being demolished on the hoof, often on the way to the aerobic class.”
“The French don’t valorize a pregnant woman’s anxiety. Instead, in the word cloud of French pregnancy, terms like serenity, balance, and Zen keep popping up. Mothers-to-be are supposed to signal their competence by showing how calm they are and by making it clear that they still experience pleasure. This small shift in emphasis makes a big difference.”
Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
“The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe.”
“The French don't know how to cook breakfast.”
“The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.”
“The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.”
“The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.”
“The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.”
“The french fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess.
Enjoy these treats as often as you're willing to prepare them - chances are good it won't be every day.
Pay more, eat less. - Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.
Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored.
If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you're not hungry.
Food is a costly antidepressant.
You should never eat a portion of animal protein bigger than your fist.
Another says that you should eat no more food at a meal than would fit into the bowl formed by your hands when cupped together.
Better to go to waste than to waist.”
Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“The french fry is my canvas.”
“The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.”
Source: I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller
“The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.”
“The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.”
“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.”
“The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.”
“The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you.”
“The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.”
“The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.”
“The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.”
Source: Bottoms up!
“The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.”
“The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.”
“The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.”
“The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.”
Source: The Lure of the Moonflower: A Pink Carnation Novel
“The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.”
“The French like anyone with money and power. - Mikhail Abramov”
Source: Moscow Rules
“The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.”
“The French love their dogs. I’m always suspicious of people who adore animals, they often don’t care much for humans.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money.”
“The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run downby much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.”
“The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.”
“The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.”
“The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.”
“The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'”
“The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.”
“The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.”
“The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.”
“The French perfected the clean, elegant line and the atelier approach to making clothing. The Italians were masters of the fine handwork needed for leather goods and tailoring. What America excelled at as the apparel business scaled up and industrialized in the early 20th century was mass-produced good-quality, hard-wearing clothes. American workwear and sportswear, like American cars, had a tough, overbuilt quality: the copper button fly on a pair of Levi's, the waxed cotton "tin cloth" that made Filson gear able to withstand wind, rain, and maybe even a blast of dynamite.”
Source: American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home