Best 465 quotes in «france quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Long live free France.

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

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

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

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

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

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered.

Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded by all those mountains.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.