France Quotes

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important. (Gertrude Stein)
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. View quote
Billy Wilder
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
France cannot be France without greatness. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. View quote
Barbara Cartland
You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
France has no friends, only interests. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. View quote
Julia Child
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. (James A. Michener)
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America." View quote
Helen Rowland
Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. View quote
Stendhal
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. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet. View quote
Gordon Korman
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws. View quote
Joachim du Bellay
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. View quote
Vivien Leigh
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
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. View quote
François Mitterrand
All my life I have had a certain idea of France. (Charles de Gaulle)
They order, said I, this matter better in France. View quote
Laurence Sterne
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. View quote
Johnny Depp
We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the economic superpower and military superpower of the planet. That's just not going to happen, ... We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the France of the 21st century a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability. View quote
Mitt Romney
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. View quote
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington