France Quotes
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There are more than a million British people living in Spain. There are hundreds of thousands of British people living in France. In fact there are tens of thousands of people living in almost every EU country and if we were to pull up the drawbridge on the English Channel, the truth is British people wouldn't be able to come and go because they'd take action against us.
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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
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Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.
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Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.
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I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)
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Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.
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In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.
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I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.
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England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.
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France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.
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Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.
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I'm looking forward to France, ... France has been really good to me the last three years, I've been in the final every year, so I'm really looking forward to going back there and hopefully get a good result.
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When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.
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Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.
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I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood (...)
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In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
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Dogs smoke in France.
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I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.
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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
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I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
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France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.
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I would love to get a job in France!
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.
