France Quotes

• There is no hell. There is only France.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Hell, Positive Atheism

  Song: Church Chat

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Countries Of The World

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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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• 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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• One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Smart, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

  Alan Parsons

  Sells

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

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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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• This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sexy, Humorous

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• We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, Dog, Cat

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• I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

  Pierre Laval

  Europe, Said, Consent

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• France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.17, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

  Karen Armstrong

  Country, Intellectual, Looks

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

  Roland Barthes

  Country, Drinking, Wine

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• France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

  John Gunther

  Country, World, Care

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• In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Beauty, Sex, Males

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.44

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• In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Eye

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.645, Velvet Element Books

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• You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Art, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.131, Ballantine Books

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• France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

  Laurent Fabius

  Strong, Giving Up, Views

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• There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Harvard, Reader

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org.

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• France has usually been governed by prostitutes

  Mark Twain

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.318, Univ of California Press

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• England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  West Indies, Europe, India

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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

  Fred Allen

  Humorous, Cities, Paris

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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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• France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

  Johnny Depp

  Europe, America, People

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

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• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.413

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