France Quotes

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

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!

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.

The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

Far less envy in America than in France.

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.