best quotations about
France |
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Quotations
 | France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 7 likes |
| Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 7 likes |
| All my life I have had a certain idea of France. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President (opening sentence of his Mémoires de guerre) 4 likes |
 | In France, the first political principle is: everything you do is wrong and will remain wrong until it is me who does it. — André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist 4 likes |
| France cannot be France without greatness. La France ne peut être la France sans la grandeur. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 3 likes |
| When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 3 likes |
 | Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 3 likes |
 | Until 1940, there was nothing better in the world than France, the French spirit. — Jean Dutourd, 1920-2011, French writer 2 likes |
 | Russians imitate French ways, but always from a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 2 likes |
 | France is a country that loves to change government as long as it’s always the same. |
 | There's always something fishy about the French. |
 | The French as a whole perpetually give the impression that they are being stepped on. |
 | France under Napoleon: slavery minus the shame. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician |
 | The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners. |
| The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. |
Latin Quotes
 | All Gaul is divided into three parts. Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. — Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman general & Consul (the first phrase from his work De Bello Gallico) 8 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 5 likes |
Stupid Quotes
 | The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for “entrepreneur”. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 7 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | You Americans are dumb. You admire Lafayette and Maurice Chevalier. They're the dumbest of all Frenchmen. — from the film Breathless (1960) 3 likes |
