France Quotes - Page 27

• France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Tired, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.512, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They're both very good things. I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you're ground down by convention. You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. That's because it's a democratic nation. I expect America's worse.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Things In Life, Two

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• Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.

  Louise Rennison

  Hands, Three, Able

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• On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Games, People, Pairs

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• Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.' I should be honored, Your Majesty.' I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.' I should be grateful.' It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.

  Philippa Gregory

  Daughter, Grateful, Giving

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• And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

  Mark Haddon

  Life, Thinking, Eclipse

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• Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

  John Ashbery

  Want, Including

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• They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Ocean, People, Earth

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• They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, People, Together

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Beautiful, Faithful, Translations

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• I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Christ

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.485, e-artnow

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• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Humble, Rocks

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• I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Sorry, Taken, Eye

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• I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

  Gordon Korman

  Country, Hate, Whole

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• Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not drinking. 'Oh, I just don't feel like it this morning.' 'Why not?' 'I guess I'm not in the mood?' 'Well, this'll put you in the mood. Here. Drink up.' 'No, really, I'm OK.' 'Just taste it.' 'Actually, I'm sort of...well, I sort of have a problem with it.' 'Then how about half a glass?

  David Sedaris

  Morning, Drinking, Glasses

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• One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Jesus, Eye

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.94, Multnomah

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• The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

  Stendhal

  America, United States, Public Opinion

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Future

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances. 'Did he bite you?' said Father. 'No,' said Frances. 'Did he scratch you?' said Mother. 'No,' said Frances. 'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will not hurt you. Go back to sleep.

  Russell Hoban

  Mother, Hurt, Father

  Russell Hoban “BEDTIME FOR FRANCES”

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• Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.

  Tim Burton

  Girl, Heart, Winning

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• Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2000). “The First Quarto of King Henry V”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Stars, Son

  William Shakespeare (1883). “Shakespeare's King Henry V”

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• What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?

  David Levithan

  Dad, Needs, Want

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.117, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Crowns, Saws

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• Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Loneliness, Thinking, Fright

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