(603 quotes found)
“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
Albert Einstein
“France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country”
Mark Twain
“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
“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.”
Arthur Rimbaud
“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.”
Charles de Gaulle
“France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.”
“France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''”
Helen Rowland
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.”
“The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France”
Thomas Jefferson
“So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.”
Eddie Izzard
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