France Quotes

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I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood (...)

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.

Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.

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.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.

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.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.

Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

I dont want to return to France, because Ive won everything there - league title, cup, best player, best young player

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

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

I don't believe Vladimir Putin is a killer, a threat to France, to others in this region. Nothing Vladimir Putin has done would make me reach that conclusion.

We don't have a lot of Sikhs in France. We've got some. But we don't really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France.

We are a great nation, which has lot to offer to the world, but to offer something to the world France has to remain France.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

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.

France has no friends, only interests.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.