Quotes of France - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Well, it looks like we've moved a step closer to war. Not with Iraq. With France and Germany. How did we screw that one up? ”

- Jay Leno

“ Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ”

- Richard Perle

“ It's great that American cinema poses such a threat. In France we have all these pseudo-auteurs who don't have a new idea in their heads. ”

- Sophie Marceau

“ We are a cult in most places, and I like that. Japan has a lot of love to give the Bluetones. When we go to Spain, France and Germany, it's not big budget swanky time! ”

- Dave Mason

“ Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen… Their faith is their passport. ”

- David Ben Gurion

“ With her unmistakable pout and jutting breasts Brigitte Bardot was more than just a goddess. For a war-weary generation she came to personify a new, liberated, sun-soaked, carefree France. ”

- Diana Geddes

“ Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs? ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away. ”

- William Cowper

“ France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads. ”

- Unknown

“ France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character. ”

- Napoleon

“ Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong. ”

- Unknown

“ I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. ”

- Arthur Rimbaud

“ I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. On and off. On and off. One day I got a call from a woman in France who said Cut it out! ”

- Steven Wright

“ France regrets a decision which nothing justifies today and which could have heavy consequences for the region and for the world. ”

- Dominique de Villepin

“ Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. ”

- Lady Marguerite Blessington

“ France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.". ”

- Helen Rowland

“ France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. ”

- Billy Wilder

“ France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. ”

- Mark Twain

“ France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ Does this boat go to Europe, France? ”

- Anita Loos

“ If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ France is like a great compass, which ever way they point to, go the complete opposite direction and you'll be fine. ”

- Gandhi

“ I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. ”

- Duke of Wellington

“ France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams. ”

- Thomas Carlyle
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