France Quotes · Page 14

When a World Cup is held in France, it's such an incredible even.

— David Trezeguet

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

— Bob Hope

I love Europe! France is wonderful. It should be. We've subsidised it for 40 years.

— Nigel Farage

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Benjamin Millepied

What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.

— Leo Varadkar

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.

— Sam Neill

We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We…

— Laura Innes

I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan.…

— Manu Chao

When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt…

— Henri Matisse

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

— Jean Baudrillard

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy…

— Harry Mathews

I love anywhere new and different. That's the fun of travel. I've always loved driving through Spain, France and Italy - sometimes…

— Rory Bremner

“on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves”

— Charles Dickens

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that…

— Janine di Giovanni

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my…

— Abderrahmane Sissako

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying…

— Patrice Evra

Once I chanted the Hare Krishna mantra all the way from France to Portugal, nonstop. I drove for about twenty-three hours and…

— George Harrison

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France…

— John James Audubon

The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in…

— Helmut Schmidt

When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar,…

— Francis Parkman

I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

King Fahd was also committed to the strong and trusting relations between France and Saudi Arabia. This old friendship, which began with…

— Jacques Chirac

The name of our country, France, still rings out like a call to freedom.

— Marine Le Pen

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

— James Broughton

I played for four different clubs in France; I played for Marseille, which is one of the biggest clubs.

— Dimitri Payet

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

— Alexander Pope

I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

— Ernst Lubitsch

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

— Daryl Hall

“It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?”

— Jackie Williams

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

— Jules Ferry

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Kevin Drum

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

— Alex Ferguson

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

— Eric Cantona

Mbappe always performs whether that's in Ligue 1, Champions League or with the France national team.

— Robert Pires

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

— M. F. K. Fisher