France Quotes - page 2

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there. (Joan of Arc)
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals -- apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. View quote
Mark Twain
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? View quote
Manuel Puig
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past. View quote
Michel Patini
To be a nutritionist in France, you must be a doctor, seven years studies, and then three more years in nutrition. View quote
Pierre Dukan
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. View quote
Pierre Dukan
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published. View quote
Dick Bruna
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. View quote
Bob Geldof
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails. View quote
Herman Gorter
Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood. (Vic Morrow)
Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
There is no hell, there's only France. View quote
Frank Zappa
Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise. View quote
Anthony Eden
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows. View quote
François Rabelais
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full. View quote
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? View quote
Francis Parkman
When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry. View quote
Francis Parkman
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt. View quote
Francis Parkman
France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded. (Francis Parkman)
A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples, throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time, the American generals showed themselves to be very advanced in the tactical handling of their forces, although we had to wait until the Patton Army in France to see the most astonishing achievements in mobile warfare. View quote
Erwin Rommel
Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfill its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it. View quote
Montesquieu
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski