Frenchmen Quotes - Page 5

• I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

  Leslie Caron

  Civilization, Paris, Personality

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• Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Thinking, Who I Am, Proud

  2004 Explaining his identity-his father was a Berber from the Kabylie region of Algeria and Zidane grew up in the Marseille suburb of La Castellane. In the Observer, 4 Apr.

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• The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Reflection, Knights

  'The Spectator' no. 383, 20 May 1712

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• Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Genre

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• Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.

  N.D. Wilson

  Knowing, Littles, Trouble

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Teacher, Three, Wonderful

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• I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Dialect Coach, Trying, Months

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

  Anais Nin

  Depressing, Tired, Men

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• Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Men, Say Anything

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