France Quotes

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.

We can't start dividing people up into categories. In the past, France has often committed the error of not speaking to everybody because there was a belief that some countries could be neglected.

Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

One of the things I've always loved about anime is that, even though it comes from Japan, it's so international - so much of the big anime I love takes place in Italy or France or New York.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.

France is great because she is France.

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.

I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

I don't have to negotiate an arms agreement with Great Britain or with France.

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

I am against the Islamisation of France!