Thoughtless, dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us \"What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?\" To this I answer \"If we left off fighting, you would soon find out.
Winston Churchill
Chirac is saying: France is adapting. We are applying the same strategic thought but to deeply different circumstances.
Dominique Moisi
If France are not at their best then we could beat them (in what would be their first ever away victory in the Six Nations).
Pierre Berbizier
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
Barbara Cartland
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal
The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She was going out to get a bottle of wine. Two hours later, the Germans marched into France.
Sam Diamond
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a LUXURY befitting a young man.
Henri B. Stendhal
What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.
John Gay
You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.
Donald Rumsfeld
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
William Cullen Bryant