Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing–turn your toes out when you walk—And remember who you are!

I transform “Work” in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real “Work” – of writing.) for: the “Work” by which (it is said) we emerge from the great crises (love,...

Quel tempérament de feu a cette fille-là!

Max,’ I said, looking up at him, ‘I love the Russian heritage you guys are so willing to share, but I’m not so thrilled with the French.”What?’ His brows lowered. ‘We’re not French.”Great. So the...

On ne se souvient pas des jours, on se souvient des instants.

This medical view of an ideal male who was insulated from pathogens was inextricably bound up with a parallel discourse about the maintenance of strong ego boundaries, a psychic investment in one’s bodily peripheries that...

L’amour, bande de connards ! A quoi ça rime, sinon, de vivre ?

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman...

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

Flambé – done beside a table covered in crisp starched linen in a French restaurant: a method to burn food and money simultaneously.

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Quand tu es dépendant des autres pour le moindre geste, il faut être pote avec la grande aiguille de l’horloge. La patience est un art qui s’apprend patiemment.

I thought the French were supposed to be so polite,” said Harriet indignantly.Maybe it can’t be proven statistically, but it’s a safe bet that any given American on his or her first trip to France...

En français.

You’re as strong as the Pont Neuf. You’ll live to bury us all!

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

You’ll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.”Hmm, maybe I don’t want to learn French

La fente, comme tracée au tire-ligne, cette superbe couture rabattue, qui s’épanouira un jour en pétales et, au fil du temps, deviendra le con de la femme, un pliage d’origami.

Un soir qu’ils étaient couchés l’un près de l’autre, comme elle lui demandait d’inventer un poème qui commencerait par je connais un beau pays, il s’exécuta sur-le-champ. Je connais un beau pays Il est de...

I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

…What do you do with all your money?””Me and the French hoard gold.

On ne comprends rien à la civilisation moderne, si l’on n’admet pas d’abord qu’elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure.

Nous esperons que notre grand-père vivra encore longtemps.

Celui qui n’est pas passionné devient tout au plus un pédagogue; c’est toujours par l’intérieur qu’il faut aller aux choses, toujours, toujours en partant de la passion.

Je suis comme ça. Ou j’oublie tout de suite ou je n’oublie jamais.”Samuel BECKETT, En attendant GodotI’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Isn’t this Michigan?”She laughed, “Oh oui monsieur, but the French came to Paradis more than cent ans…a hundred years ago.””And they still speak French?””But we are French.””Aren’t you American?”She shrugged, “No one truly conquers the...

The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that they have for the other arts, for painting, for literature, and...

are a sordid, low-budget French film. The sort you’d stumble across on TV at night. You know you’ll regret it in the morning, but you keep watching anyway.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Cheer up,’ said the captain’s son. ‘Life is long, and we are young.

bohemian Paris,” where French artists had gathered and cabaret songs had filled the air. In its heyday, Montmartre was one of the centers of popular entertainment, and its artists prided themselves on flying in the...

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers – I love it.

She had probably referred to herself as Mrs. Scott Landon less than half a dozen times in all the years of her married life, and never once during the twenty-six months of her widowhood. It...

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c’est notre vénération devant ce qui a été déjà fait, si beau et si valable que ce soit,...

L’ascenseur qui parcourt les mes n’a que deux boutons : “Plus bas” et “Encore plus bas

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”)

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...

The variations of the Duchess’s judgment spared no one, except herhusband. He alone had never been in love with her, in him she hadalways felt an iron character, indifferent to the caprices that shedisplayed, contemptuous...

las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.

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...

A ses yeux, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de bonté était bon, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de loyauté était loyal. Celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs d’intelligence, intelligent. C’est ainsi qu’il n’avait...

Si le grain de blé qui est tombé en terre ne meurt, il reste seul ; mais, s’il meurt, il porte beaucoup de fruit. Celui qui aime sa vie la perdra, et celui qui hait...

Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

I love you”? I could say it in another language, like French. I could say it through action, like a kiss. Or I could say it indirectly, like telling your best friend, April. Yes, I...

Je ne regrette rein.

La vie est atroce ; nous savons cela. Mais précisément parce que j’attends peu de choses de la condition humaine, les périodes de bonheur, les progrès partiels, les efforts de recommencement, et de continuité me...

C’est pas assez que tous tu dis c’est de la merde, François? Tu veux coucher dans la merde, aussi?