Best France Quotes
839 France quotes by 583 unique authors
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We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
— Duke of Wellington
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The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.
— Francois Mitterrand
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I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that…
— Louis XI of France
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Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is…
— Zoe Lofgren
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Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you…
— John Dos Passos
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Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so much happier without me. I…
— Kurt Cobain
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Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy…
— Adolf Hitler
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I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)
— Adolf Hitler
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The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)
— Adolf Hitler
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The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization.
— Winston Churchill
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt…
— Roland Barthes
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Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be…
— Martin Luther
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Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.
— Herbert Wind
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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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This is a great day for France!
— Richard M. Nixon
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a…
— John Stuart Mill
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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of…
— Humphry Davy
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That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a…
— Camille Flammarion
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What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
— Tom Ford
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...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789...…
— Karl Marx
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