France Quotes · Page 19

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

— S. J. Perelman

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Regis Philbin

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

— John Gunther

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Ferdinand Lassalle

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

— Paul Bocuse

“Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver Our puissance into the hand of God, Putting it straight in expedition. Cheerly to sea;…

— William Shakespeare

The Premier League, if not the best league in the world, is among the two best. It has a much higher visibility…

— Fabinho

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own…

— Robert Morley

'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will…

— Bruce Chatwin

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

— Anna Cora Mowatt

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into…

— W. C. Brownell

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was…

— Jim Harrison

Going out to France three years ago to watch Euro 2016 was massive and when I was there, stood in the crowd,…

— Harry Wilson

We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober…

— Thomas Jefferson

My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet,…

— Lucy Punch

[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens…

— Austen Chamberlain

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an…

— John Moody

“All in all, French armies wrought much suffering in Europe, but they also radically changed the lay of the land. In much…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…

— Roland Barthes

The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types…

— Kasi Lemmons

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

— James May

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France.

— Henri Bourassa

“France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.”

— Arnold Bennett

“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.”

— Raymond Aron

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

— Yael Naim

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

— Victor Hugo

Why go to France when you can smell the same people in coffee shops here in America.

— Felipe Esparza

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

— Oliver Goldsmith

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

— Claire Denis

Show me a rock imported from France, and I'll show you de Gaulle stone.

— Soupy Sales

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

— Emmanuelle Beart

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.

— Gen H Norman Schwartzkopf

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

— Diane von Furstenberg

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

— Stendhal

There is only one thing that matters to me: the France team.

— Aymeric Laporte

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

— Arsene Wenger