France Quotes · Page 18

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

— Josephine de Beauharnais

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

— Jacques Delors

I dreamed of becoming a world champion, I dreamed of becoming France's champion.

— Kylian Mbappe

I was disrespectful everywhere: U.S., Italy, France.

— Logan Paul

That's only in America. We don't have French doors in France.

— Gad Elmaleh

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

— Voltaire

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— John Gunther

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is…

— Otto von Bismarck

In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of…

— K-Maro

I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over…

— Audie Murphy

It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just…

— Bob Hope

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

— Adolf Galland

“Near the kiosk the old lady who sold refreshments seemed slowly to be gathering all the shadows of evening about her skirts.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern…

— Alain Juppe

France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

— Xavier Niel

Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup. ... They won after France's best player got ejected for head butting.…

— Jay Leno

Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller…

— Geoff Mulgan

I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before…

— Nicholson Baker

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and…

— Thomas Jefferson

When the air forces of the U.S., Russia, France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others are already engaged with Isis in Syria,…

— Crispin Blunt

A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even…

— Simone Weil

What King Abdullah of Jordan said is essentially the war against ISIS is a war for the soul of Islam. And it…

— Hillary Clinton

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew…

— Joel Robuchon

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

— Jain

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— S. J. Perelman

France will be on the front line in the fight against terrorism.

— Emmanuel Macron

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

— Regis Philbin

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

— Ferdinand Lassalle

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

— Paul Bocuse

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

— Roger Moore

“If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.”

— Philip G. Epstein

“For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce.

— Francois Hollande

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

— Francois Mitterrand

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

— Jain

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

— Lance Armstrong