Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Chirac

We believe you are on the right path and we have full confidence in you to continue your action, ... We know that the international effort will last for years to come, and France will fully play its part.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

Charles Baudelaire

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Charles Baudelaire

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

Chaim Weizmann

There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

Louise Bourgeois

I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'm not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

Joanne Harris

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

William Shakespeare

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Bernard Hinault

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

Bernard Hinault

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

Carole Bouquet

I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

Tift Merritt

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy.

Kathryn Harrison

By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.

Karen Maitland

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

James Wolfe

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

Benoit Mandelbrot

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

Charles Lindbergh

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Bo Burnham

And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.

Otto Rehhagel

We know France have the best players in Europe but we will go in with strength and passion and we have everything to win and nothing to lose.

We know France are exciting, quick, strong, organised and very athletic with good movement but I'm getting the videos of them in and we're very confident.

Diane von Furstenberg

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

David Ginola

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

Dave Barry

Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy, where they drive on the sidewalk; and France, where if necessary they will follow you right into the hotel lobby.

Dave Barry

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

Joschka Fischer

We have to go back to normal business with our most important ally, the United States, and with France -- the most important outside of Europe and the most important ally inside,

Daniel Boulud

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.

When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes

We want improvements in the text. The intervention of France introduced some new important elements, but the general framework of the counter-declaration is not considered entirely satisfactory to our side.

Agnes Repplier

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Charles de Gaulle

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.