France Quotes · Page 17

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

— Alexander Pope

I played for four different clubs in France; I played for Marseille, which is one of the biggest clubs.

— Dimitri Payet

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

— James Broughton

I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

— Ernst Lubitsch

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

The name of our country, France, still rings out like a call to freedom.

— Marine Le Pen

I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.

— Sam Neill

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would…

— Mireille Guiliano

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France…

— Bernard Arnault

Financial globalisation and Islamist globalisation are helping each other out. Those two ideologies want to bring France to its knees.

— Marine Le Pen

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and…

— William Odom

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

— Brigitte Bardot

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an…

— Richard Sammel

With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to…

— Flora Tristan

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China,…

— Alan Cranston

London is one of the few cities where people still dress properly and fashion exists. Every day I see women who've thought…

— Tom Ford

I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village…

— Danielle Trussoni

I'm talking about France and Germany and Italy and Spain - new friend Germany - and I love that story, how they…

— Tavis Smiley

Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy.…

— Jesse Lee Kercheval

It's very different - the European way of working and the American way of working. There are two sides for each of…

— Bianca Balti

Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excites me. It's one of the…

— Bonnie Tyler

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

— Voltaire

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

— Pierre Salinger

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— John Dewey

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

— Charles de Gaulle

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

— Eva Green

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

— Charles de Gaulle

I don't have to negotiate an arms agreement with Great Britain or with France.

— Barack Obama

My first act as president will be to reinstate France's borders.

— Marine Le Pen

I played in Belgium, in France and in Germany, which was very good - but England is very special.

— Demba Ba

I don't want to return to France; France doesn't tempt me at all. I like England.

— Riyad Mahrez

Here in France, what we love is Life. And all the pleasures that go with it.

— Michel Hazanavicius

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

— Joachim du Bellay

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

— Marine Le Pen