France Quote by Nicolas Chamfort Download Open image “If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.” — Nicolas Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare France Government Politics Should
Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?' — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I would argue, by the way, if the French citizens knew exactly what that was about, they would be applauding and popping Champagne corks.… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter. — Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans Copy Share Image
The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France. — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors. — Bernard Liautaud Copy Share Image
We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort 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… — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share Image
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
