France Quotes - page 3

Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society. (Janusz Korwin-Mikke)
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. View quote
Éamon de Valera
The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised. View quote
Samuel Johnson
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. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football. View quote
Dennis Bergkamp
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i. e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack. View quote
Austen Chamberlain
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone and God is alone and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes. (Charles de Gaulle)
As far as France is concerned, we are ready to envisage everything that can be done under UNSCR 1441. [...] But I repeat that every possibility offered by the present resolution must be explored, that there are a lot of them and they still leave us with a lot of leeway when it comes to ways of achieving the objective of eliminating any weapons of mass destruction which may exist in Iraq. I'd like nevertheless to note that, as things stand at the moment, I have, to my knowledge, no indisputable proof in this sphere. View quote
Jacques Chirac
And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand. View quote
John Dryden
If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German; - and to the shame of the German nation. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
I don't live in France; I live in myself. View quote
Alejandro Jodorowsky
On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself ... The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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. View quote
Frank Buckles
Be grateful you're not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn't a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you're a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I. View quote
Dr. Seuss
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face. (Bill Bryson)
Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks! View quote
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. View quote
Douglas William Jerrold
If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country. View quote
Nicolas Sarkozy
If you come to France and you wear a veil, if you go to one of the administrative buildings, then that's not acceptable. If you don't want your wife to be examined by a male doctor, then you're not welcome here. France is a country that's open. View quote
Nicolas Sarkozy