France

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

— France

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

— France

An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.

— France

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

— France

When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken'. Some chicken! Some neck!

— France

According to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about 50 years... I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right.

— France

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

— France

France and America clash so often not because they are so irreconcilably different, but because they are so alike.

— France

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

— France

Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social easePleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.

— France

France will hold on. The French will hold on, without even needing a “sursaut national,” a national pushback reflex. They’ll hold on because there’s no other way, and because you get used to everything. No human force, not even fear, is stronger than habit.

— France

I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

— France

You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.

— France

When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes.

— France

England is an empire; Germany, a country — a race; France is a person.

— France

How old I am! I'm eighty years!That lovely city—Carcassonne!

— France

In France, the characteristic attitude of newcomers from North Africa, Turkey, and sub-Saharan Africa is predominantly one of alienation, confrontation, rejection, and hatred.

— France

That sweet enemy, France.

— France

One doctor said, `In France, we think that abortion is more moral earlier.' And I thought to myself, we think so too in the United States, but we don't dare say it.

— France

They order," said I, "this matter better in France.

— France

Once again, France is the victim of brutal Islamic terrorism. Men, women and children viciously mowed down. Lives ruined. Families ripped apart. A nation in mourning.

— France

The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk,And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

— France

Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught usSix hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?

— France

Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.

— France

Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Behold their tears and hear their cries!

— France

In 1793, the French were shouting: 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!' What they got was Napoleon.

— France