France Quote by Laurence Sterne Download Open image “They order," said I, "this matter better in France.” — Laurence Sterne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare France Matter Order Said
“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)” — E.M. Delafield Copy Share Image
The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place. — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
“Then your tailors will rule the land and no one will make the clothes. So much for French fashion. . . and French politics.” — The Scarlet Pimpernel Copy Share Image
“It's one of the things I like about being in France, it brings out the best in me, and always surprises me-and even when… — Mark Greenside Copy Share Image
“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?” — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“Well, you know those Frenchmen. Always anxious to share their big baguettes.’” I” — Kenneth C. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries.… — Maurice Dekobra Copy Share Image
Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem. — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know… — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she… — Bert Stern Copy Share Image
Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically… — Michael Leiter Copy Share Image
