ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.
CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal."
...
ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked.
CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.
Tags: french french-cinema french-film french-new-wave movie-quote
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!
Tags: humor alice-in-wonderland french remember alice lewis-carroll
...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).
Karl MarxTags: humor progress equality history feminism french english american labor-union social-change
Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.
Steve MartinThe Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
Tags: chinese french jews nazis russia algeria arabs arnold-j-toynbee arnold-joseph-toynbee arnold-toynbee displacement greeks israel poland refugees turkey
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.
Marguerite de NavarreTags: french effort achievement medieval grapes troubador vines
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.
Michael PollanTags: politics food french guilt chocolate americans chocolate-cake connotations semantics word-association
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 the guise of a pupil when one risked becoming pedantic - thus by a shrugging of one's shoulders, disconcerting some with their genuflecting stance, and immortalizing oneself in multiple, impersonal, or even anonymous forms in response to the gesture of arms raised in stupefaction.
Stéphane MallarméTags: literature french
There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor french old-age grey-hair guillotine
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
Friedrich EngelsTags: women french marx engels
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