France Quotes

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

We don't have a lot of Sikhs in France. We've got some. But we don't really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

We are a great nation, which has lot to offer to the world, but to offer something to the world France has to remain France.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France.

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.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.

France has no friends, only interests.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

It's because of this massive immigration and more in some places, (that) France's image has undeniably changed. There are a number of neighborhoods where you are no longer living a French life. That's undeniable.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

France cannot be France without greatness.

Vive les peuples, Vive la Republique! Vive la France!

There is no hell. There is only France.

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

When France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold.

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

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.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. 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.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.