France Quotes

• Every man has two countries: his own and France.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Countries Of The World

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• There is no hell. There is only France.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Hell, Positive Atheism

  Song: Church Chat

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• It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

  Lillian Hellman

  Country, World, May

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• The French complain of everything, and always.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Funny, Humorous, Complaining

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Country, Winter

  Mark Twain (2003). “Is He Dead?: A Comedy in Three Acts”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic; to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Use, Facts, Recycling

  "Baudelaire as a literary critic".

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• Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Country, Ideas, Firsts

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Son, Hospitality, Caps

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

  Adolf Galland

  Russia, Norway, Fighter

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  War, Battle, Lost

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• I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Errors, History, Vomiting

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• France cannot be France without greatness.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Greatness

  Les Memoires de Guerre vol. 1 (1954)

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• 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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Once Upon A Time, Habit

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• I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Use, Made

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• Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

  James A. Michener

  Country, Russia, Expression

  "A Spelunker in the Caves of History". "Modern Maturity" Magazine, August 1985.

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• We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

  Roger Moore

  Nice, Oysters, Doe

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• I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

  Robert W. Service

  Criticism, Intense, Neighbor

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• I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.

  Suzanne Somers

  Son, Law, Benefits

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 6, 2007.

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

  Gertrude Stein

  Important, Literature

  "An American and France". Lecture by Gertrude Stein, 1936.

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• The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Horse, Men

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

  Tracey Ullman

  Who I Am, Knows

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• The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Sea, France And England, Best Things

  The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published 1859),'The Anglo-French Alliance'.

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• Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

  Tracy Austin

  Home, Sister In Law, Japan

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• I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

  Adrian Lyne

  Thinking, Space, Get Better

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• I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

  Philip Gibbs

  War, Sleep, Fighting

  Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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