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In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

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.

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.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

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

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

It's because of this massive immigration and more in some places, (that) France's image has undeniably changed. There are a number of neighborhoods where you are no longer living a French life. That's undeniable.

It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think more than that French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

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.

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.

I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

Long live free France.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me.

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

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

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.