370 Quotes About France

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

Faced with this endless British troublemaking, Napoleon was, in Bonapartist French eyes, like a kung fu master, meditating peacefully on his prayer mat about progress and democracy while a gang of irritating English boys threw acorns at him, finally forcing him to get up and give them a slap.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?

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.

Our world is changing. I don't know what's going to happen today, or tomorrow or the day after that, but whatever it is, Camille, I want to go through it with you.

[France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.