Best France Sayings
839 France quotes by 583 unique authors
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Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each…
— Unknown Author
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an…
— Eva Ibbotson
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Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?
— William Shakespeare
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal,…
— H. A. L. Fisher
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I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances…
— Frances Bean Cobain
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution…
— Karen Hughes
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour…
— Peter Singer
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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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France lost a great novel last night.
— Victor Hugo
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I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by…
— Groucho Marx
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Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming…
— Ernest Hemingway
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He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
— John Maynard Keynes
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Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
— Ned Rorem
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Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason…
— Alexander Hamilton
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These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile…
— Louis Pasteur
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Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium,…
— G. Edward Griffin
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In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and…
— Margot Livesey
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It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.
— Alan Pardew
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I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie…
— Isabelle Huppert
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I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just…
— Kurtis Blow
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