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Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

Do you have feelings for this kind man?" "You shouldn't ask her such a question," Frances Catherine said. "But do you, Gillian?

En France particulie'  rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide  es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

Dogs smoke in France.

European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for the possibility of European-only cyber-defense, counter-terrorism, and conventional defense too.

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.

Far less envy in America than in France.

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

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.

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

France does not practice revenge.

France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

France has no friends, only interests.

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

France cannot be France without greatness.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.