France Quotes · Page 19

France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France.

— Marine Le Pen

When you are 14, 15, 16, you can train every day in France, and sometimes you can train twice a day.

— Patrick Vieira

I love Europe! France is wonderful. It should be. We've subsidised it for 40 years.

— Nigel Farage

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

— Bob Hope

When a World Cup is held in France, it's such an incredible even.

— David Trezeguet

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

— Agnes Repplier

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

— Benjamin Millepied

What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.

— Leo Varadkar

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the…

— Anonymous

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

— Camille Desmoulins

I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France,…

— John Elkann

The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…

— Peter Singer

I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my…

— Cecile de France

If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the…

— Tyler Hamilton

I have discovered France's best-kept secret. Reunion is an island of some 970 square miles situated in the Indian Ocean south-west of…

— Carol Drinkwater

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.

— Francois Hollande

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors…

— Amanda Peet

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind…

— Agnes Repplier

Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men…

— Frank B. Kellogg

Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role.…

— Jacques Chirac

China is exciting because it is an extremely curious and interested market. What more can a designer ask for? The client here…

— Michael Kors

Following the attacks in Paris, French President François Hollande has a completely different set of concerns. France needs more police, more security…

— Martin Schulz

It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago.…

— Simone Weil

...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us…

— Michael Klare

I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.

— Eric Ripert

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

“Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

— Mark Twain

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.

— Henry A. Kissinger

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

— Daryl Hall

“It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?”

— Jackie Williams

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

— Jules Ferry

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

— Kevin Drum

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

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

— Alexander Pope