France Quotes - Page 32

• I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Mean, Twelve, Noon

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• the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Writing, Play, Jazz

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• Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

  Nina Berberova

  Reflection, Essence, Cities

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• stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Fundamentals, Stoicism, Characteristics

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• The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Race, Individual, Type

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• ... France is the genius among nations.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Genius, Nations

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• how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Stew

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• In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  Firsts, First Lady

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• 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.

  Frank Buckles

  Want, Bigs, Said

  "Frank Buckles: America's Last Living World War I Veteran". www.tbo.com. February 6, 2008.

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• France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every citizen. No Frenchman need ever fear that catastrophic illness will wipe him out financially. How long, do you suppose, will it take us, in the United States, to catch up?

  Suzanne Massie

  Country, Long, Principles

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• Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.

  Peter Mayle

  Sunday, Men, Doors

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• It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals.

  Andre Siegfried

  Thinking, Impossible, Individual

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• I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

  Alec Baldwin

  Beautiful, Men, Eight

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• I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

  Vivien Leigh

  School, Erratic, Helping

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• This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Names, Boredom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.260

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• Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
  Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
  Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
  And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Age, Half

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.963, Oxford University Press

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• Milk-livered man,
  That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
  Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
  Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st
  Fools do those villains pity who are punished
  Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
  France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
  With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
  Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries
  'Alack, why does he so?']

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Blow, Men

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• Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we
  Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see
  That face of hers again. Therefore be gone
  Without our grace, our love, our benison.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Childhood, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.36, Palgrave Macmillan

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• In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

  Arsene Wenger

  Where You Live, Way, England

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• Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Angel, World, Indifference

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• Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

  Susan Hale

  Prayer, Mind, Fasting

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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• The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.

  Thomas Sankara

  Country, Successful, Thinking

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• I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

  Roger Zelazny

  Art, Blood, Fancy

  Roger Zelazny (1978). “The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber”

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• I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.

  Edward C. Prescott

  Differences, Important, Gains

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• Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.

  Carole Bouquet

  Mother, Jobs, Aunt

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