France Quotes · Page 9

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

— James May

“France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.”

— Arnold Bennett

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

— Yael Naim

“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.”

— Raymond Aron

Why go to France when you can smell the same people in coffee shops here in America.

— Felipe Esparza

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

— Victor Hugo

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

— Claire Denis

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

— Francis Parkman

My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.

— Melvin Van Peebles

We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore…

— Emmanuel Macron

Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it…

— Olivier Megaton

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

He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he…

— John Steinbeck

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to…

— Joan Collins

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

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

— Emmanuelle Beart

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.

— Gen H Norman Schwartzkopf

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

— Diane von Furstenberg

Show me a rock imported from France, and I'll show you de Gaulle stone.

— Soupy Sales

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

— Arsene Wenger

The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.

— Francois Fillon

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

— Stendhal

There is only one thing that matters to me: the France team.

— Aymeric Laporte

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

— Charles de Gaulle

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

— Gaspar Noe

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

— Raymond Aron

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

— Roger Moore

“For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.”

— Philip G. Epstein

France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce.

— Francois Hollande

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

— Francois Mitterrand