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Quotes About France

Gariguette strawberries,
~ David Lebovitz
the exceptional fromagerie Laurent Dubois,
~ David Lebovitz
I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer from their own financial mania, they have a word - the millionaire - to denote men whose wealth is measured in the millions. Millions. It is inconceivable, but there are more than a few men who hold this title.
~ David Liss
In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.
~ Zinedine Zidane
The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Around here, we're as happy as God in France.
~ Herman Koch
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
~ Stendhal
We don't have a lot of Sikhs in France. We've got some. But we don't really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.
~ Marine Le Pen
So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.
~ Milos Forman
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
~ Marianne Faithfull
In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.
~ Sebastian Faulks
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.
~ Edward Norton
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
~ George Clooney
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
~ Matthew Arnold
It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
~ Andre Leon Talley
The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.
~ Asif Kapadia
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
~ Francois Mitterrand
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
~ Manuel Puig
I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
~ Audie Murphy
Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.
~ Tracy Austin
Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.
~ Mick Jagger
Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.
~ Lynn Viehl
The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.
~ Francois Fillon