F Quotes
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“France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand by the American people. We express our friendship and solidarity in this tragedy.”
“France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.”
“France is great because she is France.”
Source: Les Misérables
“France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.”
“France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.”
“France is much more colonized than it ever colonized itself, France has not really colonized the world, it conquered, it was an imperial power, but accept in Canada in the 17th and 18th century, and in Algeria, it didn't have a very strong transfer of population, it was more like conquest, an imperial conquest, for instance in black Africa there where very few French people, there where no French cities or things like that, there was no large transfer of population, and of course transfer of population, is the very essence, since the Greeks of what colonization really was, the word colonization when it first appeared in western civilization, means the transfer of Greek people to Sicily for instance, and so France is much more deeply colonized because it's a demographic colonization.”
“France is ready for a European revolution and it is Germany that is pulling the brakes. For a long time, it was the other way around. You don't have to agree with the details of every single one of Emmanuel Macron's suggestions, but he's right about the idea of a new foundation of Europe. Europe's Social Democrats have long demanded this. If we really want to, we can create a different, better Europe in the coming years.”
“France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.”
“France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.”
“France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.”
“France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.”
“France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.”
“France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.”
“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine.”
Source: That's War
“France isn't burkinis on the beach. France is Brigitte Bardot. That's France.”
“France lost a great novel last night.”
“France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.”
“France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.”
“France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.”
“France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.”
“France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.”
“France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.”
“France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.”
“France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.”
“France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.”
“France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.”
“France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.”
“France was no longer a prison, the borders were opening up again, and life shouldn't be a prison either. Four years of austerity, four years of working only for others — that was a lot, that was too much. It was time now for him to think a little about himself.”
“France will always be a great nation.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.”
“France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.”
“France will never forget the men who agreed to make the supreme sacrifice to liberate our soil, our country, our continent from the yoke of Nazi barbarity. It will never forget what it owes America, our eternal friend. Our two peoples have stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the brotherhood of blood spilled.”
“France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .”
“France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.”
“France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.”
“France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.”
Source: Cinq Mars
“France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every citizen. No Frenchman need ever fear that catastrophic illness will wipe him out financially. How long, do you suppose, will it take us, in the United States, to catch up?”
“France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.”
“France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)”
“France, of course, doesn't need anyone. I don't believe in saviors. But the way in which our country is governed needs to change radically. That starts with the politicians and goes right up to our electoral system and beyond. What we need is a fundamental renewal.”
“France, they're the world champion at soaking the rich on taxes. And at one point, they had what they called a hyper tax, 75 percent, and Gérard Depardieu and many others left the country.”
“France... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq?”
Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
“France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.”
“France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.”
“Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/
Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/
For her life, which will be so much happier without me/
I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.”
“Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.”
“Frances, finding that useful mechanical smile, hugging Tabitha with one arm, looked at this dumpy man with pointed beard and noticeable brown eyes and saw in his expression the flicker of awkwardness that she generated now all around her. The bereaved are faintly leprous.”
Source: Perfect Happiness
“Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went about making himself indispensable.”
Source: Mouth to Mouth