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.
Mark TwainTag: humor language french irony
Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve;
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...
Marcel ProustJe suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais."
Samuel BECKETT, En attendant Godot
I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
Tag: french
I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.
P.D.Q. BachThe variations of the Duchess's judgment spared no one, except her
husband. He alone had never been in love with her, in him she had
always felt an iron character, indifferent to the caprices that she
displayed, contemptuous of her beauty, violent, of a will that would
never bend, the sort under which alone nervous people can find
tranquillity.
You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!
Marcel ProustCeux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis.
The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand.
(it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)
Tag: conscience french poe rêve endormi
What isn’t clear, isn’t French.
Antoine de RivarolTag: french
On ne se souvient pas des jours, on se souvient des instants.
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