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Quotes about France

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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 LebowitzGermans with good food.
- (on France)
Fran LebowitzThe 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 RoykoThey 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 CoolridgeFrenchmen 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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