France Quotes · Page 3

Far less envy in America than in France.

— Stendhal

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

France is great because she is France.

— Victor Hugo

I'm very happy in France making movies.

— Michel Hazanavicius

“Air France’s in-flight magazine.”

— Ervin Laszlo

There is no hell. There is only France.

— Frank Zappa

France has no friends, only interests.

— Charles de Gaulle

“Laissez faire, laissez passer.”

— François Quesnay

If you look at Germany and France, a couple other countries, those are really kickboxing markets.

— Scott Coker

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

— James May

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

— Maurice Druon

Returning to one's city is like Napoleon going back to France, full of greatness and future tales.

— Madeline Von Bouchard

I would visit my father and spend the summers with him in the south of France.

— Yasmin Aga Khan

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

— Jain

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

— Lance Armstrong

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was…

— Catherine Malandrino

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

— David Ginola

In America it's good to show people you are fine, you're healthy, you're sporty, you're happy to do things, to live. And…

— Lea Seydoux

In France, it is important to work every morning on the tactical. Wenger worked every morning on the tactical.

— Robert Pires

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met…

— Joanne Harris

Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.

— Alexandre Aja

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has…

— Francois Hollande

This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they…

— Dave Barry

When I was in France, I'd buy books about the history of the Cannes Film Festival, with all those images of the…

— Ron Mael

It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The…

— Ridley Scott

Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how…

— Megan Chance

I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I…

— Indira Gandhi

We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and…

— Mitt Romney

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The…

— Aldous Huxley

I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where…

— Oriana Fallaci

In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Not all pioneers went west.”

— David McCullough

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

The Tour de France is ridiculously hard.

— Mark Cavendish

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

— Michel Houellebecq

This is a great day for France!

— Richard M. Nixon

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

— Grant Wood

I changed Portugal to France and France to England.

— Joao Moutinho

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

— Israel Horovitz