France Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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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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• France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Ties, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.402

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• France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, Action

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• In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Cracks, Matter

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• Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Matter, Observant

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• The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

  Anais Nin

  Depressing, Tired, Men

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Together, Gunpowder, Mass

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.364

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• France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Feet

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “Plays ...”, p.231

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• The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

  Regis Philbin

  War, Coffee, Army

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• France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Great Art, Supreme

  'To a Republican Friend, 1848. Continued'

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• I cannot prevent the French from being French

  Charles de Gaulle

  Paris, Vomiting

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• If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Japan, Long Ago

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• People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

  Audrey Tautou

  New York, People, Polite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hate, Shoes, Slave

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, Introductions, etc”, p.245

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• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Europe, Germany

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2005.

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• If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Successful

  Address to French Philosophical Society, Paris, 6 Apr. 1922

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

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Total War, Has Beens

  "Re-enacting Waterloo". www.economist.com. June 16, 2005.

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• Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy, where they drive on the sidewalk; and France, where if necessary they will follow you right into the hotel lobby.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Hotel Lobby

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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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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• Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

  Paul Prudhomme

  New Orleans, Cities, People

  StarChefs Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.

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• France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

  Helen Rowland

  Divorce, America, Literature

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.26, Litres

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