France Quotes

America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.

That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.

In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.

Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists.

The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

... France is the genius among nations.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].

Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was better in France.

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

I feel like Alain Delon, who once said, "It doesn't matter that I'm not a star in America because I'm a huge star in France, I'm a legend in Spain, and I'm a god in Japan.

I don't know why people are surprised the French don't want to help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France.

Well, it looks like we've moved a step closer to war. Not with Iraq. With France and Germany. How did we screw that one up?

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

In France, history is paralyzing.

In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.

Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.

I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.