The quotes from France demonstrate how the country has captivated the minds of many for centuries. These are some of the great quotes about this remarkable nation and its people.
- “Paris is always a good IDEA.” – Audrey Hepburn in the movie Sabrina.
- “The United States is my country and Paris is my hometown.” – Gertrude Stein
- “France needs me more than I need France.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “It is true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it is a particularly adult obsession. France is the cheapest of all nations; for a Frenchman, sex provides the cheapest way to have fun. The French are a logical race. ‘ – Anita Loos
- “In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.” – Geoffrey Cottrell
- “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris when you were young, wherever you go for the rest of your life, stay with you, because Paris is a mobile feast.” – Ernest Hemingway
- Everything ends like this in France, everything. Weddings, baptisms, duels, funerals, scams, diplomatic affairs, everything is a pretext for a good dinner. – Jean Anouilh
- «Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by all; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink feels like a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect that is sought: wine is not just a filter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking. – Roland Barthes
- “I have tried to get France out of the mud. But she will go back to her mistakes and vomiting. I cannot prevent the French from being French. – Charles de Gaulle
- «The best of America moves to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for a smart person to live in a smart country. France has the only two things we shift to as we age: intelligence and good manners. “ – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- «The French is first of all a man. He is often sympathetic only because of his weaknesses, which are always completely human, even if they are despicable. – Henry Miller
- “I really like the French, because even when they insult you they do it very well.” – Josephine Baker
- “Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped in habits and caution … We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.” – Charles de Gaulle
- Wow, those French. They have a different word for everything. – Steve Martin
- To err is human. Giving is Parisian ». – Victor Hugo
- “Fights in France strengthen a love story, in America they end it.” – Ned Rorem’s Paris Diary
- Now nothing is real except French wine. Because the absurd is reality, my unreal loneliness, my tired mind. And I will die like an old Parisian. – Conrad Kent Rivers
- “The French are like gunpowder, each in himself obscene and despicable, but they are grouped together and they are terrible!” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “As an artist, a man has no home in Europe except in Paris.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays the ransom in cash and recovers its hostages, while the United States pays the ransom in arms and obtains additional hostages.” – William Saffire
- «Paris is the city in which one likes to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can leave a railway station, the Gare D’Orsay, and see, simultaneously, the main enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and book stalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees, almost everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Royal Palace. But what other city offers so much when you leave a train? – Margaret Anderson
- «French, by nature, are sensual and sensitive. He has intelligence, which tires him out of life earlier than other types of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the weather sometimes depresses him. . -Anais Nin
- “No flying machine will fly from New York to Paris … [because] no known engine can run at the required speed for four days without stopping.” – Orville Wright
- “When Paris sneezes, Europe gets a cold.” – Metternich
- “You cannot escape the past in Paris, and yet what is so wonderful is that the past and the present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn’t seem like a burden.” – Allen Ginsberg
- “France is the only country where money crumbles and you can’t tear toilet paper.” – Billy Wilder
- “In Paris, they just looked at me when I spoke to them in French; I never managed to make those idiots understand their language. – Mark Twain
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