France famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
-- Adolf Galland -
The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)
-- Adolf Hitler -
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
-- Agnes Repplier -
If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice, .. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.
-- Alain Juppe -
In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
-- Alan Parsons -
I don't live in France; I live in myself.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.
-- Alexa Chung -
It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.
-- Alexa Chung -
I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.
-- Ali Larijani -
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
-- Alice B. Toklas -
It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals.
-- Andre Siegfried -
Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.
-- Andy Partridge -
Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.
-- Anna Cora Mowatt -
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
-- Antonia Fraser -
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
-- Audrey Tautou -
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
-- Audrey Tautou -
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.
-- Bernard Arnault -
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
-- Bernard Arnault -
I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.
-- Bernard Hinault -
I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.
-- Bernard Hinault -
It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.
-- Bob Corker -
This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.
-- Bobby Heenan -
I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.
-- Bonnie Wright -
Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant
-- Brian De Palma -
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
-- Camille Desmoulins -
There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
-- Chaim Weizmann -
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
France cannot be France without greatness.
-- Charles de Gaulle -
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
-- Christine Lagarde -
I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.
-- David Ginola -
When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.
-- Didier Drogba -
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
-- Duke of Wellington -
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
-- E. V. Lucas -
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
-- Edith Piaf -
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
-- Edward Hopper -
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
-- Emily Greene Balch -
My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
-- Emmanuelle Beart -
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
-- Emmanuelle Beart -
I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount
-- Ernst Lubitsch -
how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.
-- Francine du Plessix Gray -
France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.
-- Francis Parkman -
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 -
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
-- Francis Parkman -
The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.
-- Francois Fillon -
I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.
-- Francois Gautier -
I am the president of the youth of France.
-- Francois Hollande -
Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.
-- Francois Hollande -
There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.
-- Francois Hollande -
Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.
-- Francois Hollande -
Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.
-- Francois Hollande -
If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.
-- Francois Hollande -
France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.
-- Francois Mitterrand -
France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.
-- Frank B. Kellogg -
An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.
-- Frank Buckles -
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
-- Frank Crowninshield -
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
-- Gavin Bryars -
... France is the genius among nations.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
-- Gertrude Stein -
Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.
-- Gertrude Stein -
It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.
-- Gertrude Stein -
I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet
-- Gordon Korman -
It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.
-- Grace Slick -
I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
-- Gregoire Akcelrod -
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
-- Gustave Courbet -
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
-- Harry Mathews -
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
-- Helen Rowland -
For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.
-- Henry A. Kissinger -
We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.
-- Henry Rollins -
Around here, we're as happy as God in France.
-- Herman Koch -
The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.
-- Howard Stringer -
It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
-- Ines de La Fressange -
I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.
-- Isabelle Huppert -
I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.
-- Jacqueline Bisset -
You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.
-- Jacques Anquetil -
France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
-- Jacques Chirac -
I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
-- Jacques Delors -
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
-- James Broughton -
France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's for.
-- James May -
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
-- James Wolfe -
This is now the twelfth day of rioting in France. They have been rioting for almost two weeks. And France has still not surrendered. That's like a record.
-- Jay Leno -
Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
-- Jean Anouilh -
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!
-- Jean Dujardin -
I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.
-- Jean-Claude Van Damme -
France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen
