France Quotes · Page 11

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

— Bob Hope

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

— David Trezeguet

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

— Nigel Farage

From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!

— Xavier Niel

“The tastes of France are changing and we are the last of the banquet.”

— Jonathan Grimwood

“Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.

— Henry A. Kissinger

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

In # France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at…

— Mireille Guiliano

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one…

— Raj Thackeray

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to…

— Vincent Cassel

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made…

— Ingrid Newkirk

The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and…

— Elizabeth Hawes

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in…

— Sarah Palin

What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for…

— Anonymous

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

— Emily Greene Balch

“France has the largest, most lucrative cinema in Europe, making it the second most successful cinema in the Western world (a distant…

— Mick LaSalle

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could…

— Edward Grey

Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have…

— David Pryce-Jones

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France -…

— Karl Lagerfeld

But joint pressure from states like Germany, Italy and France could mean a move in this direction. Because something very fundamental is…

— Paolo Gentiloni

When I started my life as a baby lawyer, I was interviewing with all the best firms then at the time, and…

— Christine Lagarde

“She murmured, “I love the imagery of Sappho, the warm summer air across the velvety darkness, the lover between love’s thighs.” She…

— Paul A. Myers

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that…

— John Howe

“Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

— Mark Twain

I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.

— Eric Ripert

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

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

— Jules Ferry

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

— Kevin Drum

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Jackie Williams

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

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

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Dimitri Payet

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

— James Broughton

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

— Ernst Lubitsch

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

— Norman Schwarzkopf