54 quotes found
“If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.”
“The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.”
“With heart at rest I climbed the citadel'sSteep height, and saw the city as from a tower,Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells,Where evil comes up softly like a flower.Thou knowest, O Satan, pa...”
“Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.”
“Oh poor Octave, no luck at all, as usual," said Madame Rocher, "he is still with his regiment, still only a captain. Of course, if it hadn't been for this wretched war, he would be at least a colon...”
“Seuls les poissons morts suivent le courant' - Only dead fish follow the current”
“Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?”
“The French political class has been relentlessly myopic, if not completely blind, about the concerns of those who work and mine and farm. .... To cite Eugene Weber, "One thing that we learn from hi...”
“Do not be surprised,' she said. 'It is I, and it is not I; You shall find me again, and you shall lose me; Once more shall I come among you; for few men have seen me, and none has understood me; An...”
“It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?”
“Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?”
“We believed Paris was the start of us. It's the kind of city that makes you think of beginnings, or even juicy middles. Paris is a book to savor, in whole or in part, at any time and in any season....”
“Going through the customs dampened them further. Customs inspectors must have a mental twist that makes them suspicious of innocence. Dewy-eyed honeymooners, red-cheeked provincials, and helpless l...”
“Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed,...”
“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.”
“... far be it from a French man to interfere with love.”
“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 an...”
“It's about more than us, now, can't you see? I love you, of course I do, but some things...some things just have to be done.”
“They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.”
“A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke”
