I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them;… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Sandrine opened her eyes to the soft gray light of early dawn. Recollections of sensual pleasure seemed to caress her body, bringing… — Paul A. Myers Copy Share Image
The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in France. She's very commercial and… — Emmanuelle Seigner Copy Share Image
I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Look at France and Didier Deschamps; he was just a guy who just did his job but he was captain of one… — Sol Campbell Copy Share Image
“Why is it that they can only come up with one model of spaceship? You would assume such intelligent creatures could, once… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That… — Elena Mauli Shapiro Copy Share Image
In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every… — Omar Sy Copy Share Image
One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States… In these terrible circumstances, all… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
“Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east.… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the… — Arnaud Desplechin Copy Share Image
I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet,… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
![“Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion of doctrines regarding possible use of nuclear weapons makes them more, you know, sort of, salient and important and so it's increasing the perceived political value…” quote by John Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/18a/john-burroughs-1157_contributing_basically-united-states-and-france-said_249049.png)
![“Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality…” quote by Margaret Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/662/margaret-thatcher-463_christianity_human-rights-did-not-begin-with-the-fren_1272124.jpg)
![“[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.” quote by Joseph Stalin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1d4/joseph-stalin-1734_aids_state-finds-frontier-either-with-the-aid_2847832.jpg)
