English Quote by V.S. Naipaul

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

— Madame de Stael

“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

“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

“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

“IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE TWO NATIONS. ONE WAS A vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive…

— Alex von Tunzelmann

“England and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the…

— Gustave Flaubert

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a…

— Charles de Gaulle

“The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?”

— Niall Ferguson

Every man has two countries: his own and France.

— Anonymous

It's very important to say that French doesn't belong to France and to French people. Now you have very wonderful poets and writers in…

— Leila Slimani

Instruct the mothers of the French people.

— Daniel Webster

“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