Quotes About France

The spectacle of this lovely nation, with its great agricultural wealth and its cultural riches , continually stepping on its own toes, made me wonder if France suffered a kind of national neurosis

Only two things kept her from loathing him. The expression on his face when he'd said, France. And the expression on his face when he'd said, home.

Louis de Bourbon and his right hands Cardinal Mazarin and Jean-Louis Colbert transformed France, particularly the city of Paris, into a haven for civilized society, a refuge for the arts, a gastronomic mecca for gourmands. That is what Georges-Guillaume Damas wanted to do for Gabon in Africa.

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

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

Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française

the whole apparatus of trying to force people to behave well would be unnecessary if France did not also maintain a contrary apparatus that encourages people to behave badly.

But for all this Fritsch was a fervent nationalist, and he shared with Hitler a hatred of the Jews, the 'Jewish press,' and a belief that 'the pacifists, Jews, democrats, black-red-and-gold and the French are all one and the same, namely people bent on Germany's perdition.

Telling someone in France that they did something that was not correct is an affront to their honor, almost as severe as being told they're mal élevé, or "badly raised.

rond-point, the traffic circle that wraps around the very busy place de la Bastille.

eau de Javel, that universally loved liquid developed here in 1789 that's still dear to the French to this day.