France Quote by Charles de Gaulle

As a kid, I wanted to be part of the Lost Generation who came to France.

— William Klein

I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my…

— Emmanuelle Charpentier

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken…

— Vivien Leigh

I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to…

— Robert Redford

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

— Charles de Gaulle

My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering…

— Giles Coren

“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

“My realisation that all I had ever done in life, not only in France but in England also, was to watch people, never to…

— Daphne du Maurier

“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

“In the days when I set off on month-long bicycle trips across France, my greatest pleasure was to stop in country cemeteries, to stretch…

— Emil Cioran

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

— Yael Naim

“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