Empires Quote by Sydney Samuelson

“Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées." ("It's not the…

— George Sand

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

— Joachim du Bellay

Vive la France libre.

— Pierre Trudeau

“the differences between the crown of France and its vassals were expressed in a language which was essentially feudal (a new political vocabulary more…

— Christopher Allmand

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

— Joachim du Bellay

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the…

— Charles de Gaulle

Adieu....Je T'aime...

— Eric Nickel

“Conjugation in French is a special kind of horror, on par with the sort of things you’d need to do to call up the…

— April Daniels

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

— Mark Twain

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

— Theodore Zeldin

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their…

— Christina Stead