France Quotes · Page 12

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

— Marine Le Pen

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

— Sam Neill

I see no reason why France and Britain should not have excellent relations - we are old allies.

— Marine Le Pen

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

— John Ashbery

Russia is not a threat to France - why should I be hostile to Russia.

— Marine Le Pen

If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

— Gad Elmaleh

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

— Lou Doillon

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

— Anonymous

I was called up for Spain against France, my international debut, and it was said that I had gastroenteritis when I had…

— Bojan Krkic

When a garment is in sync with your body and its proportions, it looks and feels amazing, and in France that is…

— L'Wren Scott

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went…

— Stephanie Szostak

France wants Britain to remain in the E.U.; indeed, how can we imagine that friendly nation that is our ally and played…

— Francois Hollande

I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them.…

— Jacques Perrin

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained…

— Mireille Guiliano

Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration…

— Martin Jacques

The Tour de France is a different kettle of fish to what I do, but it doesn't matter what you do -…

— Chris Hoy

In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them"…

— Nell Irvin Painter

Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is…

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over…

— Willa Cather

Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with…

— James Dean Bradfield

This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American…

— Andrew Dickson White

At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk…

— Pedro Winter

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities…

— Francois Hollande

“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and…

— Stanley Loomis

If they call me, I would be very happy. It's a dream to play for France.

— Aymeric Laporte

France's Charles VI was subject to fits of insanity and unable to rule.

— Princess Michael of Kent

It's true that the training and mentality in Spain is totally different to how it is in France.

— Antoine Griezmann

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

— Francis Parkman

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

— Bob Hope

“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?”

— Peter Murphy

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

— Jacques Delors

“Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“As my body recalled my soul, I began to quiver with pain and gasp for air.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

— Chris Frantz

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

— Frank Crowninshield

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

— Gustave Courbet

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

— Pierre Schaeffer

I realised my whole focus each year is about the Tour de France.

— Mark Cavendish

The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.

— Carl von Clausewitz

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

— Gordon Korman