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Top 95 France Quotes

November 2, 2020 by Krista Leave a Comment

“France desperately needs to work on its competitiveness and attractiveness.”

― Alain Dehaze

“I don’t live in France; I live in myself.”

― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I always knew I would live in France.”

― Andre Boucourechliev

“Does this boat go to Europe, France?”

― Anita Loos

“My goal is to play at Euro 2016 with France.”

― Aymeric Laporte

“I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.”

― Azzedine Alaia

“I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.”

― Bonnie Wright

“I am against the Islamisation of France.”

― Brigitte Bardot

“In France, Clint Eastwood is like a god.”

― Cecile de France

“France cannot be France without greatness.”

― Charles de Gaulle

“I was France.”

― Charles de Gaulle

“I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 – I didn’t have television then.”

― Charles de Gaulle

“In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war’s shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built around manned, motorized armor.”

― Charles Duhigg

“I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.”

― Christine Lagarde

“In France they don’t think I’m difficult.”

― David Bailey

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

― David Ginola

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

― Diane von Furstenberg

“I played for four different clubs in France; I played for Marseille, which is one of the biggest clubs.”

― Dimitri Payet

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

― Edward Hopper

“France has to reform, to recover, and get more competitiveness.”

― Emmanuel Macron

“France has to accelerate in terms of reform.”

― Emmanuel Macron

“France is back.”

― Emmanuel Macron

“We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.”

― Emmanuel Macron

“I want France to become the European hub for R&D.”

― Emmanuel Macron

“France is a strong, wealthy country.”

― Emmanuel Macron

“I’m a child of provincial France.”

― Emmanuel Macron

“France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.”

― Emmanuel Macron

“Long live the Republic, long live France.”

― Emmanuel Macron

“I’ve been to Paris France and I’ve been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.”

― Ernst Lubitsch

“I would love to get a job in France!”

― Essie Davis

“France does not practice revenge.”

― Francois Fillon

“I am the president of the youth of France.”

― Francois Hollande

“Each country has a soul, and France’s soul is equality.”

― Francois Hollande

“France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.”

― Francois Hollande

“Muslims in France should be able to practice their religion freely and safely.”

― Francois Hollande

“The extremists wanted to divide France; it came together.”

― Francois Hollande

“Long live the Republic, and long live France.”

― Francois Hollande

“As much as I believe in the Franco-German partnership, I question the idea of a duopoly. European construction is based on a well-balanced and respectful partnership between France and Germany.”

― Francois Hollande

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

― Frank Crowninshield

“In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.”

― Fritz Lang

“That’s only in America. We don’t have French doors in France.”

― Gad Elmaleh

“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”

― Gertrude Stein

“In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.”

― Gordon Brown

“I like Ireland because it means I’m near France.”

― Harry Harrison

“I owe everything to France.”

― Ingrid Betancourt

“France is very welcoming to foreign writers.”

― Israel Horovitz

“My dream is to have a small company in France.”

― Israel Horovitz

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

― Jacques Chirac

“I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.”

― Jacques Delors

“France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment.”

― James Douglas

“There wasn’t anti-Semitism in France.”

― Jean-Marie Le Pen

“There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.”

― Jean-Marie Le Pen

“After the liberation of France, I went to the movies all ihe time.”

― Jean-Paul Belmondo

“In France, history is paralyzing.”

― Jean Paul Gaultier

“These countries – Spain, France, Germany – have environments that are really geared toward the professional player.”

― Jill Ellis

“France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.”

― Joachim du Bellay

“In France, we have a geographic situation that is very exceptional, and it creates produce that is completely exceptional.”

― Joel Robuchon

“When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.”

― John Eisenhower

“My husband is a general’s chauffeur somewhere in France.”

― Lillie Langtry

“I do not separate France from Europe.”

― Lionel Jospin

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

― M. Ward

“The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.”

― Marine Le Pen

“France no longer has any borders because of the E.U.”

― Marine Le Pen

“I don’t think that France is responsible for the Vel d’Hiv.”

― Marine Le Pen

“For France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton.”

― Marine Le Pen

“The French want less Europe and more France.”

― Marine Le Pen

“When something favors France, I say so. When it doesn’t, I say so, too.”

― Marine Le Pen

“I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France.”

― Marine Le Pen

“Long live the Republic, long live France.”

― Marine Le Pen

“What unites us is an unconditional love for France.”

― Marion Marechal-Le Pen

“There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.”

― Martha Gellhorn

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

― Matthew Arnold

“Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.”

― Maurice Druon

“France is, for me, the country of happiness.”

― Max von Sydow

“I’m very happy in France making movies.”

― Michel Hazanavicius

“Polemical debates happen all the time in France.”

― Michel Houellebecq

“Compared to some of our neighbours, it’s not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.”

― Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“France has more need of me than I have need of France.”

― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France’s interests.”

― Paul Kagame

“Oh, in France you can’t defame an idea, only a person.”

― Pierre Dukan

“The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.”

― Pierre Schaeffer

“A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.”

― Quentin Blake

“If George W. Bush is elected president, I’m leaving for France.”

― Robert Altman

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

― Roger Moore

“I don’t have a chateau in France. There’s no private airplane or yacht.”

― Sam Neill

“When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel’ d’Hiv wasn’t part of the history program.”

― Tatiana de Rosnay

“In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.”

― Tom Brokaw

“The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought hundreds of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Jews to France.”

― Tom Reiss

“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.”

― Victor Hugo

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

― Walid Jumblatt

“In France, I learned about wine and cheese.”

― Walter Wager

“As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh’s demands were a model of modesty.”

― Wilfred Burchett

“Telecoms is a national business. There isn’t a European market. There’s no Telecom Italia in France.”

― Xavier Niel

“France is a fantastic country. It’s between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.”

― Xavier Niel

“I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.”

― Yogi Berra

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