France Quotes - Page 2

• The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

  Fred Allen

  Humorous, Cities, Paris

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• Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

  Ned Rorem

  Love, America, Affair

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

  Jim Harrison

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

  Yogi Berra

  Southern, Invasion, Normandy

  "Serby's Sunday Q&A with Yogi Berra". nypost.com. June 26, 2008.

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• It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

  Victor Hugo

  Kings, Ends

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• France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Drama, Destiny, Men

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.11, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Wine, Fighting

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• English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

  Vivien Leigh

  People, Age, Diction

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• One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Happiness, Apples

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• If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Government, Should Have, Laughing

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• Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

  Jean Anouilh

  Paris, Dinner, Way

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Fun, Intelligent

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• It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Couple, Humorous

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• From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humorous, Paris

  George Burns (1991). “The Most of George Burns”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Husband, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.192, Da Capo Press

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• When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

  Carla Bley

  Stars, Keys, Band

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• I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Love, Age, Acting

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• So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

  Milos Forman

  Media, Thank God, Switzerland

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• There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Paris

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• Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

  James Broughton

  India, Denmark, Poetic

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• I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

  James Monroe

  Russia, Friendly, Satisfaction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Littles

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• Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

  Andy Partridge

  Fear, Eating, Middle

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• It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Average

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• In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

  Walter Wager

  Wine, Cheesy, Cheese

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