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

The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

There is no hell, there's only France

The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.

This is a great day for France!

"This is now the twelfth day of rioting in France. They have been rioting for almost two weeks. And France has still not surrendered. That's like a record.

The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

The waiters in France could all be senators in the US.

The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.

"They order," said I, "this matter better in France.

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.

Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

Trump's election is part of an international trend that's no less alarming, in Britain, in France, in Germany, in Austria. Vladimir Putin wanted to see this outcome no less than he would like to see nationalists and anti-Europeanists win in France.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown

We are a great nation, which has lot to offer to the world, but to offer something to the world France has to remain France.

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.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States.

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

A beautiful white silk scarf was around her neck, tucked below the fur collar. Her lips were well painted into a bright red cupid’s bow. Cute as hell I always told myself, with a tinge of regret. She had a steady girlfriend.