1940s Quote by Anthony Doerr

“They knew all about the war with France from Papa’s magazines. But whenever they tried to imagine what a war was actually like, it…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“In Paris, I felt connected to history in a way I did not in America. Elderly men I passed in the Latin Quarter, with…

— Kati Marton

“In France, patriotism trumped partisanship.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and preen as…

— Lynn Messina

“France was eclipsed by the solid German block, producing far more than twice her number of military males each year, towering up grim and…

— William Stevenson

“After five years of military occupation, the French population of Illinois was exhausted and bewildered.”

— Daniel Royot

“A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Don't be afraid to go left when the world is going right. The French learned that the people have power to make change, they…

— Martin R. Lemieux

“In France, the war created 600,000 widows and left nearly one million children fatherless. In England three men were killed in World War I…

— Joseph E. Persico

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)

— Adolf Hitler

“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

“I pitied the French for their naivete in believing that they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen