Quotes About France
We are making a new order," he said. "A new world. There is talk of the end of the authority of the Pope, the map of France and Spain is being redrawn. Everything is changing, and here we are, at the very front of the change.
~ Philippa Gregory
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He was a bricklayer; for fifty years, in Italy, America, France, then again in Italy, and finally in Germany, he had laid bricks, and every brick had been cemented with curses. He cursed continuously, but not mechanically; he cursed with method and care, acrimoniously, pausing to find the right word, frequently correcting himself and losing his temper when unable to find the word he wanted; then he cursed the curse that would not come.
~ Primo Levi
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Vous êtes cil que je quérais Vrai roi de France parmi tous... Dieu vous a eu en souvenance.
~ Unknown
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The gods are being kind to me in my old age. Most beautiful women are either good, stupid or vicious. And you are the marvellous exception. Lovely as a goddess, clever as an Athenian and a bad hat like myself, yet one who still has decent feelings. I'm going to kiss the lips off you once we land in France.
~ Unknown
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Robert was found guilty of her murder, condemned to death and 'chased out of the realm of France' as Froissart puts it; there were allegations, probably justified, of witchcraft.
~ Unknown
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My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we go next. To France, to Italy, even back to Scotland. My heart has been yours since the first time I saw ye, and you've held my soul and body between your hands here and kept them safe. We shall go as ye say.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we go next. To France, to Italy, even back to Scotland. My heart has been yours since first I saw ye, and you've held my soul and body between your two hands here, and kept them safe. We shall go as ye say.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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And the next thing I remember is waking in France, in the Abbey of Sainte Anne de Beaupré, with my head throbbing like a drum and someone I couldn't see giving me something cool to drink.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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and in fact, he was, but…" He cleared his throat, and Ian reached into his pack and handed him a battered flask. Dark as it was, he felt the crude fleur-de-lis under his thumb. It was Ian Mòr's old soldier's flask, which his friend had kept from their time in France as young mercenaries, and the feel of it steadied him.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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The last time I saw you," Grey said, very quietly, "I came within an inch of putting a bullet through your head. Don't give me cause to regret my restraint." He let go and stood up. "Stay away from my son—stay away from me. And if you will take a well-meant bit of advice—go back to France. Quickly.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we go next. To France, to Italy, even back to Scotland. My heart has been yours since first I saw ye, and you've held my soul and body between your two hands here, and kept them safe. We shall go as ye say.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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Ligue 1 attracts me very much.
~ David Trezeguet
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Insomma, c'erano anche da noi tutte le cause della Rivoluzione francese. Solo che non eravamo in Francia, e la Rivoluzione non ci fu. Viviamo in un Paese dove si verificano sempre le cause e non gli effetti.
~ Italo Calvino
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At the end of the second Opium War (in which it was joined by France), Britain forced the Chinese to fully legalize both the trade in opium and the shipment of Chinese indentured labourers to the Americas (where they worked as slaves in all but name).
~ Unknown
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English Pirates Like the Netherlands, England was a Protestant country threatened by the Catholic might of Spain at sea and France on land. As things stood in the second half of the 16th century, the English crown had nothing to lose by encouraging private ship-owners to make a living out of pirating the slow and heavy Spanish merchant ships returning from South America laden with gold and silver.
~ Unknown
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France Talk and Frogs' Legs
~ Dan Gutman
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I see London, I see France I see Emily's underpants.
~ Dan Gutman
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Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.
~ Bruno Dumont
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Nobody wants to hear my political views... so I won't be talking about that. But on diversity, nobody in this company has worked harder, done more and resourced it better than me.
~ Brian France
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The French have a very deep knowledge of Islam in many areas, and we can exchange views.
~ Tony Tan
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I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
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You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
~ Graham Taylor
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I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.
~ Giles Foden
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First in France, first in Romania - by land and sea to the English and Paris. Marvellous deeds by that great alliance. The violent brute will lose Lorraine.
~ Nostradamus
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