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I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
— Charles Baudelaire
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
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
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— Andrea Bouchaud
I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)
— Adolf Hitler
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
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
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
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
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
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
— Matthew Arnold
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
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
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
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
