Best 465 quotes in «france quotes» category

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

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

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

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

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

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

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

I'm very happy in France making movies.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen.

In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].

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

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.