Quote by Niall Ferguson Download Open image ““The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?”” — Niall Ferguson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Let us be French, let us be English, but above all, let us be Canadians!” — George Fischer Copy Share Image
“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In reality, France's American territory extended to the west as far as a Frenchman could go without getting shot by a Spaniard, and likewise… — Mark Stein Copy Share Image
“Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English.” — Glen Duncan 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
“Isn't this Michigan?" She laughed, "Oh oui monsieur, but the French came to Paradis more than cent ans...a hundred years ago." "And they still… — Vivian LeMay Copy Share Image
“Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“A Frenchman! Where did you pick up that expression? Are these Burgundians and Bretons and Picards and Gascons beginning to call themselves Frenchmen, just… — Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, but the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Consider this: the US economy created 2.4 million jobs in the three years beginning in June 2009. In the same period, 3.3 million Americans… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Is it better today to be in a network, which gives you influence, than in a hierarchy, which gives you power?” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“the twentieth century ran a series of experiments, imposing quite different institutions on two sets of Germans (in West and East), two sets of… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers.… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
