Corruption Quote by Anne Rivers Siddons

“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so…

— Edmund White

“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?”

— Peter Murphy

“I know of no other place that is so fascinating yet so frustrating, so aware of the world and its own place within it…

— Sarah Turnbull

“The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“Going about one's native land one is inclined to take many things for granted, roads and buildings, roofs, windows and doorways, the walls that…

— Victor Hugo

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

— Marthe Bibesco

“The Place Blanche, Paris, Life itself. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can…

— Jean Rhys

All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

— Lawrence Durrell

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

“This land, like so much of the French countryside, was a painting, but Mercier felt his heart touched with melancholy and realized, not for…

— Alan Furst

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the…

— Josephin Peladan