Quotes with french-infatuated

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  • Marilyn French ''I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,'' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Adrian Lyne And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bryan Batt As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American film screenwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American screenwriter and songwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Napoleon Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Caroline Winberg Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.
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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Bernard Berenson German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Camille Paglia Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Adrian Lyne I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Brooke Burke I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I have heard some say... that such [homosexual] practices are allowed in France and in other NATO countries. We are not French, and we are not other nationals. We are British, thank God!
    Speech in House of Lords, 24 May 1965
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Bruce Chatwin I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Robert Burton I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Anna Held I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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