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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Billy Wilder (1906 - ) | France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. | |
| Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002) | France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. - (Director, writer and producer) | |
| Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970) | How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? | |
| D. H. Lawrence (1855 - 1930) | I would have loved it -- without the French. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | In England, any man who wears a sword and a powdered wig is ashamed to be illiterate. I believe it is not so in France. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | They have few sentiments, but they express them neatly; they have little meat, too, but they dress it well. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country. | |
| Fran Lebowitz | Germans with good food. - (on France) | |
| Fran Lebowitz | The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that whay you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simiply talking. | |
| MALCOLM SEALY (1927 - ) | EVERY MAN HAS TWO COUNTRIES - THE ONE OF HIS BIRTH AND FRANCE - (AUTHOR & ESSAYIST) | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. | |
| Mike Royko | They aren't much at fighting wars anymore. Despite their reputation for fashion, their women have spindly legs. Their music is sappy. But they do know how to whip up a plate of grub. - (on France) | |
| Samuel Taylor Coolridge | Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and comtempible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! | |
| William F. Buckley Jr. | A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, military impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom. - (on France) |
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