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France  Quotes
A virgin woman has saved France as a virgin man has saved all mankind. (Une pucelle a sauvé la France, – Comme Un puceau a sauvé tous les hommes.)

—Charles de Leusse

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

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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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...

—David McCullough

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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...

—Mark Zero

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

—Simon Van

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

—Widad Akrawi

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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...

—Arundhati Roy

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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.

—F. Scott

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

—Karl Lagerfeld

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

—Nancy B.

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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.

—Richard C.

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There’s nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

—Charles Finch

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Don’t wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you’re gonna have to run.

—Dianne Harman

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It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I’d been there before. I don’t know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I...

—Maurice Minnifield

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It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will...

—Peter Mayle

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Ha!” cried Dr John contemptuously. “Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

—Susanna Clarke

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You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

—Graham Taylor

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I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

—Christine Lagarde

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How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

—Mark Zero

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En France, que de gens à longues oreilles : nes en littérature, lièvres en politique !

—Victor Hugo

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Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Beer Hall they should have known he was not to be trusted.

—A.J. Liebling

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The lives of thousands of young Frenchmen were ready for this literary bath of blood and sentiment in the 1830’s. Their fathers and grandfathers had had their romanticism in the raw: the drama of the...

—Francis Steegmuller

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Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

—Karl Lagerfeld

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Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.

—Nancy B.

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…it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre…

—Robert Harris

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This medical view of an ideal male who was insulated from pathogens was inextricably bound up with a parallel discourse about the maintenance of strong ego boundaries, a psychic investment in one’s bodily peripheries that...

—Christopher Forth

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This is what you British do not understand about the French. You think you must work, work, work, work and open on Sundays and make mothers and fathers with families slave in supermarkets at three...

—Jenny Colgan

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In 1902, Marcellin P. Berthelot, often called the founder of modern organic chemistry, was one of France’s most celebrated scientists—if not the world’s. He was permanent secretary of the French Academy, having succeeded the giant...

—Marcellin P.

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A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where...

—Napoleon

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Tous les chagrins sont méprisants, imprenables, perchés à des hauteurs que personne ne peux rejoindre. Peut-être a-t-on trop peur qu’une consolation efface ce qu’il reste des souvenirs.

—Timothée de

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Of course, my Christmas is (so much more) gorgeous and romantic (than Germany’s)!! And unlike the rest of the world, we leave wine behind for Santa Claus!””So Santa-san is delivering gifts to children while driving...

—Hidekaz Himaruya

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If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that...

—Ernest Hemingway

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And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.

—Mark Zero

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Je parle français.” Indira gave me a weird look. Or a look that said I was weird. Whichever. The point is, I don’t really speak French, but it’s a useful phrase for confusing people you...

—Tucker Elliot

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With heart at rest I climbed the citadel’sSteep height, and saw the city as from a tower,Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells,Where evil comes up softly like a flower.Thou knowest, O Satan, patron of my...

—Charles Baudelaire

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…all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and...

—Elena Mauli

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A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

—Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.

—Nancy B.

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Don’t push me, I’m hormonal.”I’m not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges.

—Peggy A.

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In France they don’t think I’m difficult.

—David Bailey

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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.

—Gay-Lussac

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They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of...

—Nick Yapp

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Veni, vidi, vici. That was easy for Julius Caesar to say; he crossed Italy in a chariot, not on a stupid bike.” – Vivia

—Leah Marie

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Elle voulait autre chose. Des mains qui se touchent sans rien donner.

—Timothée de

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As every circumstance relating to so capital a discovery as this (the greatest, perhaps, that has been made in the whole compass of philosophy, since the time of Sir Isaac Newton) cannot but give pleasure...

—Isaac Newton

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My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly and we had loved the big studio with the great paintings....

—Ernest Hemingway

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Never run upstairs when someone’s chasing you. Don’t try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is...

—Mark Zero

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If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.

—Victor Hugo

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Paris n’est pas une ville, c’est un pays.

—Francois I

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The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

—Malcolm X

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