England Quote by William Shakespeare

“..bid her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king’s and queen’s heads.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself.…

— William Shakespeare

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

— Pierre Laval

“She got in, as she had persuaded Jerott Blyth to bring her half across France, by force of logic, a kind of flat-chested innocence…

— Dorothy Dunnett

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

— Denis Healey

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

— Francis Parkman

“I will conclude this chapter with a remark that I am sincerely proud to be able to make—and glad, as well, that my comrades…

— Mark Twain

France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if…

— Francois Hollande

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

— William Alexander Percy

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

“O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall,…

— William Shakespeare

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous…

— Pierre Laval