France Quotes · Page 32

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

— Gore Vidal

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks;…

— Larry Gatlin

Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone…

— Peter Bergen

I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended…

— Michel Patini

What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of…

— Pablo Casals

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as…

— Rachael Harris

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

— Dave Eggers

I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my…

— Bernard Arnault

I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his…

— Martin Schulz

I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then.…

— Al Jarreau

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set,…

— Dava Sobel

I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't.…

— Tim Gunn

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but…

— Steve Martin

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane…

— H. G. Wells

Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so much happier…

— Kurt Cobain

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America,…

— Jean Dujardin

Biarritz is one of the most popular holiday destinations in France and it tops the list for coastal resorts along the French…

— Carol Drinkwater

I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would…

— Louise Bourgeois

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education…

— Noam Chomsky

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and…

— Alfred de Vigny

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing…

— Rachael Harris

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

— Jeff Lindsay

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“France had the intellectual foundations for modern industry without the commercial and financial complements.”

— Thomas Sowell

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of…

— Jacques Chirac

Well, it looks like we've moved a step closer to war. Not with Iraq. With France and Germany. How did we screw…

— Jay Leno

Financially, it's true that France does not have the same pulling power as England, Spain or Italy. But this is not the…

— David Trezeguet

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central…

— Jean Reno

Every time France has the chance of doing something big in the world of sport, it always carries it off well.

— David Trezeguet

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

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

— Robert Pires

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

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

— Francois Hollande

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced…

— Heston Blumenthal

“The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.”

— Bauvard

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom…

— Charles Baudelaire