France Quotes
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I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Martin Luther
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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.
David Lloyd
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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.
Edward Davey
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I would love to get a job in France!
Essie Davis
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England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.
Eva Green
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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.
Suzanne Somers
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When France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold.
Klemens von Metternich
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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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 (...)
Adolf Hitler
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Dogs smoke in France.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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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
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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
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She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.
Elizabeth Wein
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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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.
Nadine Gordimer
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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.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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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.
Alvaro de Vasconcelos
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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.
Wilfred Burchett
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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.
Andy Irons