56 quotes found
“Prsente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve;Dans le fond des forts votre image me suit”
“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”
“The only French word I know is oui, which means yes, and only recently did I learn its spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e.”
“There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”
“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.”
“Etre dans le vent, c'est avoir le destin des feuilles mortes.”
“We are not our own light.”
“Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.”
“Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth”
“Un soir qu'ils taient couchs l'un prs de l'autre, comme elle lui demandait d'inventer un pome qui commencerait par je connais un beau pays, il s'excuta sur-le-champ. Je connais un beau pays Il est ...”
“Haleine contre haleine, chauffe-moi la vie,Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie,Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour na point de loiTranslated: Breath against breath warms my life.A thousand k...”
“Les rves sont seuls les ralits de la vie.”
“So it was perfectly possible that there were men who liked shopping, men who understood exactly what it was all about, but Mma Ramotwe had yet to meet such a man. Maybe they existed elsewhere - in ...”
“You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak noth...”
“The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions themselves. There is no need to choose between the fetishism of spontaneity and the organiz...”
“Bonjour madame! , he was coming out of the bathroom when he saw her in the corridor. He was in his blue towel, wrapped around his well built waistline. Rrlene blushed as she saw him semi naked but ...”
“I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; theres nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.”
“I should point out, creating one's own style, as much as is required to illustrate one of the aspects, the golden seam of language, involves beginning again at once, in a different manner, adopting...”
“But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a...”
“I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette”
