France Quotes · Page 10

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Eva Green

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

— Charles de Gaulle

My first act as president will be to reinstate France's borders.

— Marine Le Pen

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

— Barack Obama

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

— Charles de Gaulle

I played in Belgium, in France and in Germany, which was very good - but England is very special.

— Demba Ba

I don't want to return to France; France doesn't tempt me at all. I like England.

— Riyad Mahrez

England against France is such a massive match; you can't get much bigger than that in European football. It's a huge rivalry.

— Danny Welbeck

The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And…

— William Cowper

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is…

— Jacqueline Bisset

Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and…

— Marcus Miller

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because…

— Mark Twain

I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New…

— Ines de La Fressange

In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire…

— Charles Duhigg

I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.

— Denny Laine

In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition…

— Groucho Marx

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things…

— Ernest Hemingway

This is a terrible year [2015] in a lot of ways. You have Paris. You have San Bernardino. But there was, if…

— Steve Kornacki

Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris…

— Michael J. Fox

Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where…

— Thomas Jefferson

On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In…

— Denis Fahey

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States,…

— Terry Zwigoff

“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought…

— Josephin Peladan

Here in France, what we love is Life. And all the pleasures that go with it.

— Michel Hazanavicius

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

— Joachim du Bellay

France is not Africa's policeman, but we have to ask ourselves what have we done with our independence?

— Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

My past as a player is strongly linked to the red, white and blue France shirt.

— Didier Deschamps

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

— Marine Le Pen

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

— Lillian Hellman

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

— Francois Hollande

The level here in England is much higher than in France.

— Dimitri Payet

“nor ground control was something of a step back for them. Furthermore, having reached France,”

— James Holland

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

— Leo Varadkar

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

When you are 14, 15, 16, you can train every day in France, and sometimes you can train twice a day.

— Patrick Vieira

France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France.

— Marine Le Pen