France Quotes

If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?, ’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Laissez faire laissez passer.

... you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

Hope is a beautiful and magical thing. Grasp it tight, monsieur, and never let go.

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.

Seuls les poissons morts suivent le courant' - Only dead fish follow the current

France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.

It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.

The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce

And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle

And the One will reveal the Bow of the Southern Star and conquer the enemy with courage and fine judgment. The sight of the One is true and the enemy cannot hide. Griffon will fly

To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.

Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

For gypsies do not like to stay -They only come to go away.

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

It wasn’t playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

There are only two things in life, ' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.

To know is nothing at all

It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?

Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

I'll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don't like gray areas.

Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.

Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.

The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

... far be it from a French man to interfere with love.

It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.

It's about more than us, now, can't you see? I love you, of course I do, but some things...some things just have to be done.

They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation, " he said.

... but we’ll be back for dinner … especially if you’re having soup de jour!”“Now, Troy! You know very well that soup de jour means ‘soup of the day.’ It changes every time!

Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."(Voltaire)