France Quotes

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

No go sections of the city and they work on law and the police don't go in there. That is not helping anything [in immigrants' assimilation]. That creates a situation like France, unfortunately.

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.

"They order," said I, "this matter better in France."

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

I don't have any problem with coverage of victims in France. My heart goes out to anyone who was hurt or killed over there.

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing.

Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

I'm very happy in France making movies.

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world...

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

France will always be a great nation.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

The waiters in France could all be senators in the US.

The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the political certainties of the last decades. And that also affects the economy.

Take me shoppin in France and he pay in advance.

You are the eternal France, I love you.

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.