France Quotes
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France will always be a great nation.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.
William Shakespeare
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Take me shoppin in France and he pay in advance.
Nicki Minaj -
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.
Martin Luther -
If you sisters let Nancy Drew go to France, you will suffer and she will tool
Carolyn Keene -
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
Wilfred Burchett -
When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.
Alvaro de Vasconcelos -
France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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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.
Isabelle Kocher -
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.
Suzanne Somers -
Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Thomas Carlyle -
Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.
Humphry Davy -
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.
Nadine Gordimer
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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.
Michel Platini -
In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
Nancy Mitford -
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.
Harry Harrison -
The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."
Bill Murray -
It's true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you . . . In America, even though it is a Protestant country, it's the opposite.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
Camille Desmoulins -
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The rejection of the Constitutional treaty by voters in France was a mistake that should be corrected.
Valery Giscard d'Estaing -
I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
Simone de Beauvoir