I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France,...

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Je suis la haine de tout ordre religieux et social que l’homme n’a pas établi et dans lequel il n’est pas roi et Dieu tout ensemble ; je suis la proclamation des droits de l’homme...

Bergé’s yelling had attracted the attention of everyone in the Kibati hall: champagne flutes stopped halfway to heavily painted lips, eyes widened, massive diamonds groaned scornfully in their settings. It was a stationary riot.

They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!

You are hard at work madam ,” said the man near her.Yes,” Answered Madam Defarge ; ” I have a good deal to do.”What do you make, Madam ?”Many things.”For instance —“For instance,” returned Madam...

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires

[French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they must teach a child how to sleep, how to wait, and how to...

Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.

Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista pass by while the twilight descended and the capital became bathed...

I hate France. It’s like the whole country’s on a diet

There are only two things in life,’ Bergé said. ‘Love and beauty.

Eiffel Tower” To Robert DelaunayEiffel Tower Guitar of the skyYour wireless telegraphy Attracts words As a rosebush the beesDuring the night The Seine no longer flowsTelescope or bugleEIFFEL TOWERAnd it’s a hive of words Or...

Our values were under attacks, in ParisTell them:We stand UNITEDWe’ll defend our valuesWe’ll NOT be DIVIDED

You’re the best gay friend I’ve ever had!

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La Révolution est Dieu détrôné et l’homme à sa place.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in...

Second: them poor things well out o’ this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher’s flopping, never no more!””Whatever housekeeping arrangement that may be,” said Miss Pross, striving to dry her eyes...

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.

bohemian Paris,” where French artists had gathered and cabaret songs had filled the air. In its heyday, Montmartre was one of the centers of popular entertainment, and its artists prided themselves on flying in the...

Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the...

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

… you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?

… she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

88.People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like...

I Will Follow AnyoneAnd Ask EveryoneTo Stand Together As One Civilisation Against Terrorism

Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy… The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but Germany, my friend, is playing a very different tune. Germany has...

When your done releasing sexual tensions, we have a meeting to continue!”~Francis Bonnefoy, Hetalia, English Dub

Par la même cause s’expliquent les succès de Mahomet. A la tête d’armées fanatiques, le chamelier de la Mecque se présente à l’Arabe ignorant et corrompu; puis, le sabre d’une main, la coupe des plaisirs...

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of...

Người Việt Nam đẻ ra là tự động biết sợ ma, sợ mơ thấy lửa, sợ gò má cao, sợ nốt ruồi ở tuyến lệ, sợ ăn thịt chó đầu tháng, sợ ăn thịt vịt...

Ne pleure jamais pour quelqu’un qui ne mérite pas t’es larmes rappelle toi la vie est jolie tout comme toi.

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes...

…the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water…To cap our woe, there was no means to light a single fire. We had to imagine dinner.

It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country’s regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little...

France.

… far be it from a French man to interfere with love.

George P. A. Healy; “I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and...

In French culture, the best way of buying time or getting off the hook entirely in a thorny personal situation is to claim that it’s complicated. The French did not invent love, but they did...

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

I will follow anyone… and invite everyone… too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose what she wishes to do, it’s not...

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

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

The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.

I’ve done an awful lot of skiing all over Europe: I’ve done Italy, Austria, France. I skied loads in New Zealand – I did pretty much every ski slope I could find.