Quotes About France

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

Able was I ere I saw Elba

No one in France has that accent. No one has a French accent like that, except on TV, when English actors show that they are French by speaking English in a French accent that no French person ever actually uses. But we have come to accept that. We want Hercule Poirot because it sounds intelligent and travelled and cultured and everything that we're not, British or Asian.

in return for Joseph resigning his right to succeed him as Emperor of France.

The French Revolution has been the highest wave of the Gnostic tide.

That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Jules Michelet.

Die Hinrichtung Ludwigs XVI. ist weniger der politischen Geschichte Frankreichs zuzuordnen als der religiösen Geschichte des Abendlandes. Die Königsmorde besiegelten einen neuen Bund im Blute frevlerischer Opferung.

That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Michelet.

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

At last comes Malherbe and, the first to do so in France, brings to his verse a smooth cadence.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

At about the time France caved in, I remember some of the men saying, 'That could be the end.' We were very worried that the government would sue for peace. The idea that this very exciting life might suddenly come to an end, and that we might all find ourselves back doing office work,

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

A jesieni? 2016, (.......), w Ukrainie dobiega? ko?ca trzeci rok wojny z Rosj?, we Francji kremlowscy kandydaci przymierzali si? do fotela prezydenckiego (jak mawia? Borys Bierezowski o nowych zasadach polityki zagranicznej Federacji Rosyjskiej ,,po co kupowa? fabryk?, skoro mo?na kupi? dyrektora?").......

General John Pershing's famous (if probably apocryphal) "Lafayette, we are here

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Lying on a birth table was first made popular in France in 1738 by Francois Mauriceau, physician to the queen, who proposed it as an alternative to the commonly used birth chair. Mauriceau encouraged this position not because it helped women in birth, but because it facilitated his control of problematic delivery and the use of forceps.

It quickly becomes clear that having a child in France doesn't require choosing a parenting philsophy.

And we can see the next excuse for staying in France coming down the pike: the école maternelle, free public preschool, with spots for just about everyone.

In the eighteenth century, historians tell us, 'valentinage,' from which Valentine's Day was derived, allowed wives in northern France to make love, on a few days each year and with the knowledge of their husbands, with a 'valentine' of their choosing.

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him." "No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ..." "Why?" "She often told me she was frightened of getting old...

Another language, sir? But I dare say it is much the same thing - a putain, as they say in France?

In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.

Au XVIIIe siècle vécut en France un homme qui compta parmi les personnages les plus géniaux et les plus abominables de cette époque qui pourtant ne manqua pas de génies abominables.