France Quotes · Page 9

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

— Marcel Proust

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

— Victor Hugo

I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes. (on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)

— Arsene Wenger

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

— William Shakespeare

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

— Gertrude Atherton

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

— Clive Tyldesley

France no longer has any borders because of the E.U.

— Marine Le Pen

To be in the France team means they have a number of duties and responsibilities.

— Didier Deschamps

Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

If you want to go to Spain or you want to go to France or you want go to [any] southern European…

— David Neeleman

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

— Tony Parker

I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st Century - still a great nation,…

— Mitt Romney

“On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed…

— Mark Zero

France has always fascinated me. It is a country that boasts of rich culture, heritage and of course, royalty.

— Shakti Mohan

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole…

— Lytton Strachey

Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded…

— Greg Rutherford

In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of…

— Eugene Green

I am too conservative to use another studio than the one I am used to, so I "had" to travel all the…

— Varg Vikernes

In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens…

— William Jennings Bryan

European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for…

— Anne Applebaum

You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of…

— Christopher McQuarrie

The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across…

— Howard Stringer

Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms…

— Libba Bray

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it…

— James E. Burke

When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

— Patrick Demarchelier

France's economy is stagnant, statist, and uncompetitive and urgently needs reform.

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

I've been away from my family even when I was in France.

— Rudy Gobert

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...

— Mick LaSalle

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

— Bobby Heenan

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

— Emmanuelle Beart

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

— Francois Hollande

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

— Gertrude Stein

The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France's interests.

— Paul Kagame

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

— Pierre Laval

When something favors France, I say so. When it doesn't, I say so, too.

— Marine Le Pen

France has been maintaining a very special relationship with India on defence matters.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

— Pierre Salinger

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

— Voltaire

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

— John Dewey