Quotes About France

I love cheese. It intensified when I moved to France. It felt like my cheese shop lady was my dealer because every week I'd say, 'I need this cheese, I need that cheese', and she'd cut me enough for the week but I'd finish a whole piece in one go.

I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

I am more than proud to be European. I love Europe, I love France, but I have an American mentality, and I don't know why. The way I see things, the way I talk, I'm the kind of person who, if I want to say something, I will say it - sometimes in Europe, it's not always what you need to do.

You train far more in France than in England. Here, we still see football as a game. Football is a job. There is still the mentality where training is at 11, you come in at 10:30, and when it is finished, you leave straight away.

I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

I get a lot of letters from French lady admirers - and gentlemen. 'Midsomer' is a huge hit in France, and it's all down to the guy dubbing me into French - a middle-aged balding fellow.

Let the French ministers take care of France; we will take care of Italy!

Honestly, the dangerous situation in which Jews in France live is such that those who walk with a kippa are in any case a minority, because they are afraid.

Thomas Jefferson asked himself "In what country on earth would you rather live " He first answered "Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life." But he continued "which would be your second choice " His answer "France.

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ON THE LAST DAY OF JANUARY 1915, UNDER THE SIGN OF the Water Bearer, in a year of a great war, and down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into the world.

But the wonderful thing about France is how all her perfections harmonize so fully together. She has possessed all the skills, from cooking to logic and theology, from bridge-building to contemplation, from vine-growing to sculpture, from cattle-breeding to prayer: and possessed them more perfectly, separately and together, than any other nation.

France had the intellectual foundations for modern industry without the commercial and financial complements.

Bark, bark," Jim said behind me. "Jim, what's your problem?" I asked as I reached out to open the glass-fronted door. "I think perhaps I am the problem," a smooth, silky, extremely sexy voice said behind us. "Oh, crap," I swore, letting my hand drop. "You are in France. The correct word ismerde," Rene corrected gently. "Sorry. Merde.

Un beso de todo París.

Hitler, in fact, was not at all doomed to lose the war. In summer 1940, peace reigned in Europe. The greatest European conflict, that between Germany and France, had already been settled, and only the British were still fighting a rearguard action against German supremacy. What is more, in 1940 Hitler was still riding on an enormous groundswell of goodwill.

In 1858, when the emperor had two missionaries executed, France sent a fleet to seize the port of Danang. French naval forces took Saigon the following year and then forced the emperor to cede the three surrounding provinces to them. Over the four decades that followed, French forces captured Hue and Hanoi and steadily extended their power and influence until the French colonial government could officially declare in 1900 that the "pacification of Indochina" was complete.

My old love for slums revived, and I found out and haunted the worst in London. They were very good slums, but they were not the slums of Paris—they manage these things better in France.

Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.

As pesquisas', diz [Revel], 'dão o seguinte resultado: à pergunta sobre em quem votarão, 53 por cento dos entrevistados responderam que votarão com a esquerda. Quando perguntados sobre quem vencerá, 54 por cento responderam: a direita. Eis a França dita cartesiana. Se lhes perguntassem se acreditam em Deus, 70 por cento responderiam que não. Mas, se lhes fosse perguntado se crêem que Jesus seja o filho de Deus, 80 por cento responderiam que sim.

The most hated men in France in 1942: Philippe Henriot9 and Pierre Laval. The first as the Tiger, the second as the Hyena: around Henriot you can smell fresh blood, and around Laval the stench of rotting flesh.

Others were compiling a hasty mental inventory of all the pages they'd written, all the speeches they'd given, which might help them win favour with the new government (and since they had all more or less lamented the fact that France had lost her greatness, lost her daring and was no longer producing children, none of them was very worried).

Dictatorship is built around this confusion. Napoleon said he only desired the greatness of France, but he proclaimed to Metternich,11 "I don't give a damn if millions of men live or die.

Hundreds of thousands of terrified refugees were escaping to France, where a campaign of fear and hatred awaited them.