France quotes

France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‚third force,‘ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

The French have got taste.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Paris is always a good idea.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.