France Quotes - Page 37

• It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Nails, Necklaces, Bracelet

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• Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough in the forthcoming Dutch elections to hold the balance of power in that country's parliament. But it is the widespread Jew-baiting that best reveals that Europeans are evidently incapable of learning from their history. France is the outright prizewinner where anti-Semitism is concerned.

  David Pryce-Jones

  Country, Balance, Done

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• The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Years, Iraq, Politics

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• France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nuisance, Politics, Facts

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the chattering class over here and a you-go-girl from Red America. France could nuke an Algerian terrorist camp and the rest of the world would tut-tut for a day, then ask if the missiles France used were for sale. And of course the answer would be oui.

  James Lileks

  Girl, Golf, Class

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• France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Home, America, Democracy

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• His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.

  J. Christopher Herold

  War, Effort, Enemy

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• They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Successful

  Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”

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• I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Thinking, Knowing, Want

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• France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

  Harry S. Truman

  Frenchmen

  Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1998). “Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959”, p.261, University of Missouri Press

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• ...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Rain, America

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• Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do more. Copy many well-said things. Pierce them together. Assimilate them. Make the process of reading them a way to form the mind and shape the soul. As anthologies can never be complete, we will never exhaust the ways quotations can enrich our lives.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Reading, Soul, Mind

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• You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.

  Jed Babbin

  War, Hunting, Baggage

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• The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

  George Will

  Important, Germany, Revolution

  George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

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• In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Independence, Liberty

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

  John Howe

  Art, School, Thinking

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• My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

  John Howe

  Art, Real, School

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• In France, history is paralyzing.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Thinking, People, Black

  Interview with Celia Walden, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. December 8, 2010.

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• I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

  Josephine Baker

  Land, Democracy, Far Away

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• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

  Lillian Hellman

  Russia, Class, America

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• Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Rocks

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.

  George Soros

  Strong, Money, Marine

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• In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

  Sybille Bedford

  Travel, Europe, Clothes

  Sybille Bedford (1986). “A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey”, Plume Books

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• Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

  Raymond Aron

  Political, Nostalgic, Utopian

  Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.31, Transaction Publishers

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