France Quotes

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

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

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.'

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

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.

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.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.