France Quotes - Page 5

There is no hell, there's only France

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

I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

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

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

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.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.