France quotes

◆ I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.

- General George S Patton100

◆ Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.

- Gen H Norman Schwartzkopf99

◆ I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

- Arthur Rimbaud99

◆ The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

- Sarah Bernhardt99

◆ When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

- Charles De Gaulle99

◆ France cannot be France without greatness.

- Charles De Gaulle99

◆ The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

- Laurent Fabius99

◆ France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

- Billy Wilder99

◆ If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

- 99

◆ To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir99

◆ Gays don't vommit. They're a very clean people. And they have been ever since they came to this country from France.

- Peter Griffin99