France Quotes - Page 5

• In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party

  Franz Boas

  Strong, Party, Years

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.68, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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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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• A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Country, Two, Doe

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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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• Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Mets, Agree, Persons

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• Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Art, Cinema, World

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

  Gavin Bryars

  Hard Times, Composer, Stills

  klassiknet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Fragrance, Oneself

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• Far less envy in America than in France.

  Stendhal

  America, Envy, Wit

  "On Love".

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• France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Long, Despotism, Epigrams

  History of the French Revolution vol. 3, bk. 7, ch. 7 (1837)

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• 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.

  Lytton Strachey

  Political, Advertising, Social

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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

  Suzanne Somers

  Years, South, Has Beens

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.

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• France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

  Billy Wilder

  Travel, Money, Fall

  Billy Wilder, Robert Horton (2001). “Billy Wilder: Interviews”, p.23, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Wilfred Burchett

  Demand, Modesty, Dealings

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• It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

  Pierre Laval

  Order, Europe, May

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• I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Thinking, Paris, Paramount

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• Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.

  Nelson Mandela

  England And America, Roots, Imagination

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.190, Hachette UK

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

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Small Numbers, Civilized

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• I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

  William H. Seward

  Europe, Mexico, Slavery

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• Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

  Dick Bruna

  Father, Book, Drawing

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• I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

  Clarence Clemons

  Growing Up, Southern Italy, Cooking

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• The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Japan, Germany, Roles

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

  Joan of Arc

  Hatred, Arcs, Thrown

  Response to interrogation by English, 15 Mar. 1431

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• France has more need of me than I have need of France.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Needs

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• The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.

  M. Ward

  Favorite Places, World, My Favorite

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