Top 100 Quotes About France
#1. What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
Frank Crowninshield
#2. One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Gustave Flaubert
#4. Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
Keith Henson
#5. No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.
Janine Di Giovanni
#6. If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.
Francois Hollande
#7. One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
Kate Forsyth
#8. Hear that, Mr. De Pfeffel Cantab or whatever your name is? That's the sound of the villa in the South of France you could have bought crumbling to dust.
Tim Collins
#9. Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
Raymond Aron
#10. That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.
Thomas Bidegain
#12. It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
Martha Gellhorn
#13. A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.
David Letterman
#14. People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#15. Rock and roll is catching on all over ... France ... England ... They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
Bob Hope
#16. Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.
Paul Johnson
#17. I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon
down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#18. Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#19. After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.
Charles Duhigg
#20. Have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident,
Charles Dickens
#22. Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
James Broughton
#24. Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.
Louise Rennison
#25. Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.
Alexandre Aja
#26. If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
Madame De Stael
#27. There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.
Janine Di Giovanni
#28. The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.
Peter Hall
#29. Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
Vincent Van Gogh
#30. For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.
Suzanne Somers
#31. I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and it was truly the most crazy, beautiful, bizarre place I've ever been.
Feist
#32. Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.
Elaine Sciolino
#33. But France did not have a normal government: it had a collection of caffeinated intellectuals
Tom Reiss
#34. France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.
Honore De Balzac
#35. A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France and the United Kingdom also know that their voice is only heard internationally because they speak through the megaphone of the European Union.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#36. When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
P. J. O'Rourke
#37. One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
James Cronin
#38. Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
Karl Lagerfeld
#39. I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
Emmanuelle Beart
#40. I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.
John Tesh
#41. Parisians had no doubt that, should the Huguenots succeed in seizing power in France, as it was obvious they were trying to do, the Catholic population would be either forced to convert or suffer annihilation. But
Nancy Goldstone
#42. France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
Gustave Courbet
#43. "In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."
S.J Perelman
#44. Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
James A. Michener
#45. In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.
Tift Merritt
#46. I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
Greg Akcelrod
#47. George P. A. Healy; I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience - which is sometimes a great help - and a strong desire to be my very best.
David McCullough
#48. When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.
John Eisenhower
#49. Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
Xavier Niel
#50. France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,' independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
Noam Chomsky
#51. Is French kissing in France just called kissing?
Peter Kay
#52. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization.
Winston Churchill
#53. In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#54. I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'm not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.
Louise Bourgeois
#55. What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.
Thomas Kuhn
#56. The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#57. Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#58. They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
T. R. Knight
#59. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.
Lance Armstrong
#61. In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation," he said.
Julia Child
#62. As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles De Gaulle
#63. And she never had, Doug mused, because war and politics go for the big view and trample all over the little guy. France during the Revolution or a steamy pit of a jungle in Nam. It never changed. He knew just what it felt like to be helpless. He wasn't going to feel that way ever again.
Nora Roberts
#64. I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.
David Ginola
#65. We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.
Joanne Harris
#66. In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.
Thomas Mars
#68. France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.
Narendra Modi
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Manuel De Cortes
#70. Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.
Marquis De Lafayette
#71. Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite ... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.
Adolf Hitler
#72. The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal
#73. France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#74. Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?
Pepin The Short
#75. I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
Yogi Berra
#76. We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.
Francois Hollande
#77. "I should be home by midnight."
"Dad, I need a car."
"Uh-huh. And I need a villa in the south of France. Go figure. Lights out at eleven," he added as he
turned away.
"I've got to have wheels,
Nora Roberts
#78. The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
Jonathan Coe
#79. She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.
Ransom Riggs
#80. She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.
Elizabeth Wein
#81. For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.
Julie Delpy
#82. I went to Tokyo three years ago. It was a job, though. I did an ad campaign for IBM, so they flew me out there to take pictures of me. It was IBM Global. It went to Australia, France, London, all over the world. But I think the ad campaign was a failure, because of me.
Bobby Lee
#83. When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.
Didier Drogba
#84. Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.
Tom Parker Bowles
#85. The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.
Malcolm X
#86. An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.
Frank Buckles
#87. As Morgenthau points out, small- and medium-sized states like Israel, Great Britain, France, and Iran cannot absorb the same level of punishment as continental-sized states such as the United States, Russia, and China, so that they lack the requisite credibility in their nuclear threats.
Robert D. Kaplan
#88. In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
#89. When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
Mireille Guiliano
#90. And we were flown to a rest camp in France, where we were fed chocolate malted milkshakes and other rich foods until we were all covered with baby fat. Then we were sent home, and I married a pretty girl who was covered with baby fat, too. And we had babies.
Kurt Vonnegut
#91. Bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.
Joseph O'Neill
#92. Nevertheless, Schlieffen decided, in the event of war, to attack France by way of Belgium.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#93. I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#94. To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated ...
Mick LaSalle
#95. The inner hatreds of men are now projected outside. There are fights in the streets. Revolutions in France, they say. Men did not seek to resolve their own personal revolutions, so now they act them out collectively.
Anais Nin
#96. Why go to France when you can smell the same people in coffee shops here in America.
Felipe Esparza
#97. When England introduced drop hanging in 1783 and France introduced the guillotine in 1792, it was a moral advance, because an execution that instantly renders the victim unconscious is more humane than one that is designed to prolong his suffering.
Steven Pinker
#98. There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
Chaim Weizmann
#99. King with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes,
Charles Dickens
#100. The advances of agricultural and contraceptive technology in the nineteenth century apparently refuted Malthus: in England, the United States, Germany, and France the food supply kept pace with births, and the rising standard of living deferred the age of marriage and lowered the size of the family.
Will Durant
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