Dinner table Quote by Charles Baudelaire

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will…

— Charles Baudelaire

It's very important to say that French doesn't belong to France and to French people. Now you have very wonderful poets and writers in…

— Leila Slimani

“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.”

— George Orwell

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago…

— William Arthur Sirmon

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

— Don DeLillo

“The tastes of France are changing and we are the last of the banquet.”

— Jonathan Grimwood

“On a trip to Paris one day, little Sophie Met a giant lady lighting up the night sky "What's your name, you magical monster?"…

— Emmanuel Macron

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

— Peter Murphy

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

— Arnold Bennett

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

— Janine di Giovanni

“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

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal…

— Christopher Morley