France Quotes

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Sense, Reading

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

War, Hunting, Accordion

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp

Great, History, Amazing

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
Johnny Depp

Life, Simple, Different

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
Yogi Berra

Southern, Invasion

France has more need of me than I have need of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Victor Hugo

End, Yes, Kings

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
Robert W. Service

Life, Society, Free

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal

Great, Men, Woman

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal

Envy, America, Far

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
Steve Martin

Funny, Good, Fun

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
Edward Hopper

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.
Donald Rumsfeld

Thinking, Old, Europe

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Gustave Flaubert

Life, Love, Happiness

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien Leigh

Age, Good, Learning

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
Charles de Gaulle

War, Lost, Battle

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder

Money, Place, Hands

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.
Brigitte Bardot

Money, Left, Nor

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein

Oneself, Adapt, Fragrance

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

Important, Gave

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire

Poetry, Fact, She

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
Karl Lagerfeld

Less, Skinny, Cent

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
Barbara Cartland

Love, Place, Door

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
Helen Rowland

May, Made, America

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder

Money, Country, Paper

My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.
Brigitte Bardot

Country, Again, Land

I am against the Islamisation of France.
Brigitte Bardot

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.
Robert Pattinson

Thought, Play, Old

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
Karl Lagerfeld

Working, Foreigners, Invest

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
Karl Lagerfeld

Health, Bad, Dangerous

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