France Quotes - Page 2

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.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

It's because of this massive immigration and more in some places, (that) France's image has undeniably changed. There are a number of neighborhoods where you are no longer living a French life. That's undeniable.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

There is no hell. There is only France.

France cannot be France without greatness.

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

Vive les peuples, Vive la Republique! Vive la France!

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

When France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold.

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

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

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.

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.