France Quotes · Page 16

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

— Quentin Blake

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

— Marianne Vos

I don't fear France as a team, nor Antoine Griezmann or any other player.

— Rui Patricio

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

— John Tesh

I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

— Lorraine Bracco

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

— Alex Ferguson

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

— Simone de Beauvoir

France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

— M. F. K. Fisher

France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I feel rejected in France. And do you know why I signed for Bayern when I could have gone anywhere? Because they…

— Franck Ribery

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

— Garry Kasparov

I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world.…

— Marine Le Pen

I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of…

— Azzedine Alaia

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to…

— Mads Mikkelsen

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And…

— Anna Sui

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me…

— William Arthur Sirmon

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and…

— Keith Henson

I remember that the first country I visited was Canada, and then France. After that, I knew that I loved traveling and…

— Brittany Bowe

I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more…

— Daniel Boulud

Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen,” Harriet said. “There’s an evil queen?” Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. “Of…

— Julia Quinn

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss…

— Adam Hochschild

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of…

— Marine Le Pen

Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took…

— Lech Kaczynski

Mbappe always performs whether that's in Ligue 1, Champions League or with the France national team.

— Robert Pires

Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

— Eric Cantona

“The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

— Francois Gautier

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

— Tracey Ullman

If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.

— Nicolas Anelka

Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.

— Laure Manaudou

“The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

I've experienced all the divisions in France, from the sixth-tier to Ligue 1.

— Edouard Mendy

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

— Alain Ducasse

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

— Olivia De Havilland

I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

— Xavier Niel

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

— Bernard Hinault

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

— Max Gallo

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

— Marcel Proust