Keyword: France

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are made in America.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

The French, they say, live to eat; the English, on the other hand, eat to die.

(1949 – ) English novelist

War without France would be like… World War II.

We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it.


cartoon character in The Simpsons (Julie Kavner)

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


(1934 – 2012) American army general

The waiters in France could all be senators in the U.S.

(1974 – ) American comedian

The only time France wants us (the USA) to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.


There is no hell… there is only France.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

The thing that’s wrong with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

To paraphrase President Kennedy, there's America, and then there's Texas. We have great relations with France. We work closely with the French government on a lot of issues.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

Hell is a place where the motorists are French, the policemen are German, and the cooks are English.

The best tribute a French translator can pay Shakespeare is not to translate him.

(1872 – 1956) English essayist, parodist & caricaturist

I can never forgive God for having created the French.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

I like the French/British relationship to a very old married couple who often think of killing each other but would never dream of divorce.

(1948 – ) British politician

The president of France said that the English are arrogant with their refusal to learn foreign languages; at least, I think that’s what he said… it all just sounded like “haw-he-haw-he-haw-he-haw.”

(1973 – ) English writer & stand-up comedian

A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations – but they all will console themselves with another man.

(1899 – 1978) French actor

I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq; after all, France wouldn’t help us get the Germans out of France!


(1950 – ) comedian & television host

What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?

(1953 – ) comedian, political commentator and television & radio personality

Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterward.

(1622 – 1673) French playwright & actor