France Quotes

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

France cannot be France without greatness.

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

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

There is no hell. There is only France.

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

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

Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

When France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold.

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.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

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.

And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

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

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

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.

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.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

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

It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!