France Quotes

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

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.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.

Do something that scares you everyday.

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.

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

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

We don't have a lot of Sikhs in France. We've got some. But we don't really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

We are a great nation, which has lot to offer to the world, but to offer something to the world France has to remain France.

France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

France has no friends, only interests.