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I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire. — Charles Baudelaire

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working. — Karl Lagerfeld

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. — Bernard Hinault

Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Hope is a most beautiful drug. — Jeremy Mercer

I will follow anyone ... and invite everyone ... too unite and defend the freedom of expression. — Widad Akreyi

People who don't count won't count. — Anatole France

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure. — Mireille Guiliano

Air France's in-flight magazine. — Ervin Laszlo

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others. — Lou Doillon

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams. — Thomas Carlyle

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. — Anatole France

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

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality. — Francois Hollande

human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here! — Yuval Noah Harari

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were. — Gertrude Stein

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

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945) — Adolf Hitler

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it. — Ned Rorem

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

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. — Yves Klein

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven. — Keren Ann

She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous. — Ransom Riggs

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France. — Segolene Royal

My dream is to have a small company in France. — Israel Horovitz

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting. — Allen Lacy

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat. — Vincent Van Gogh

Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France. — Catherine Lacey

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness. — Pierre Dukan

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France. — James Cronin

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. — Mark Zero

bullshit french post-war rationalizing — Woody Allen

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Does this boat go to Europe, France? — Anita Loos

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal. — Rich Lowry

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings. — Marie De France

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. — Anatole France

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

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France ... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. — Anatole France

The future is hidden even from those who make it. — Anatole France

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. — Josephine Baker

France has more need of me than I have need of France. — Napoleon Bonaparte

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France

France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation. — M.F.K. Fisher

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

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France. — John Ortberg

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts. — Lance Armstrong

I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar. — Chris Froome

Is French kissing in France just called kissing? — Peter Kay

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. — Anatole France

If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so. — Rachel L. Demeter

Every man has two countries: his own and France. — Thomas Jefferson

I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films. — Cecile De France

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man. — Anatole France

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life — Marie De France

Ninety percent of education is encouragement. — Anatole France

Insane Europeans who plot to cut each others' throats, now that one and the same civilisation enfolds and unites them all! — Anatole France

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. — Gustave Courbet

It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals. — Andre Siegfried

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. — Marie De France

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. — Anatole France

It's very difficult in France to get access to castings when you don't have any relationships. — Berenice Marlohe

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France. — Henri Bourassa

France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur. — Bernard Arnault

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type. — Gertrude Atherton

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued — Julie Orringer

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice. — Bernard Arnault

I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France. — Eric Ripert

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. — Matthew Arnold

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. — Nicolas Chamfort

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language. — Raj Thackeray

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three. — Michel Patini

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,
a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world. — Anna Cora Mowatt

A king should die standing. — Louis XVIII Of France

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise. — Janine Di Giovanni

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France. — John Ashbery

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is. — Karl Lagerfeld

It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love — Emmuska Orczy

Persinette, let down your hair. — Charlotte-Rose De Caumont De La Force

France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood. — Arnold Bennett

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. — Anatole France

Life is short, and the Tour de France long. — Giles Smith

No boyfriend! Why not?
Eligible men are scarce - most of them are buried in France.
What about them Americans?
Oh, no. I can't. — David Dennington

The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises. — Marie De France

Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign — Alexandre Dumas

War has been declared on France ... — Nicolas Sarkozy

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. — Anatole France

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth. — Edmund Phelps

With the countless chevrons of whitecaps. Soon enough, the navigators can discern the low moonlit lumps of islands ranged along the horizon. France. — Anthony Doerr

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness? — Edward Bellamy

It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ... — Robert Harris

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia. — Condoleezza Rice

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. — Edith Piaf

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton