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«It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun.»
Author: Anita Loos
(Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
adult, economical, France, Frenchman, Frenchmen, obsession, provides, the French, thriftiest
«I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.»
«I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority»
Author: Horace Walpole
| Keywords:
antipathies, antipathy, insolent, neighboring, superiority, the French, unfounded
«Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes-well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.»
Author: James Laver
(Critic, Fashion designer, Writer)
| Keywords:
amused, Englishwoman, Englishwomen, Italian, lifting, reaction, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, spreading, the French, The Italian
«I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.»
«Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. The decisions are made in the Kremlin. The city of Peter remains a museum, open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.»
Author: Joseph Wechsberg
(Reporter, Writer)
| Keywords:
Italians, kremlin, museum, Old Italian, peter, PM, St. Petersburg, stage set, St Peter, St Petersburg, the French
«Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.»
«Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
confined, contemporary, demons, enraptured, mesmerize, mesmerized, navels, subjective, the French, toes
«It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
appeals, Appeal To Reason, besieged, crusade, crusades, crusading, French Revolution, instituted, instituting, irresistible, monastic, orders, Saracen, The Crusades, the French, The French Revolution, The Passions, Troy
«It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man»
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