France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
I don't live in France; I live in myself.
I've played in France. There, in many matches everybody is already happy if he can secure a point. Here, in Germany? Forget it! Everybody wants to win. The last-placed team in the standings would take any match with the ambition to win it. That makes it so hard, even for the best teams in the league.
I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America. '
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile in prospects and findings of the highest importance. The names of these organisms are very numerous and will have to be defined and in part discarded. The word microbe which has the advantage of being shorter and carrying a more general meaning, and of having been approved by my illustrious friend, M. Littré, the most competent linguist in France, is one we will adopt.
I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)
I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.
In France they don't think I'm difficult.
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.
France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France.
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i. e. , those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist. ) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
