Keyword: France

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

(1622 – 1673) French playwright & actor

I can never forgive God for having created the French.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

(1955 – ) French President & politician

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

(1974 – ) American comedian

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

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

(1858 – 1932) American physicist, physician & humorist

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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


(1934 – 2012) American army general

There's always something fishy about the French.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

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

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

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

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

War without France would be like… World War II.

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

(1949 – ) English novelist

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


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

(1872 – 1956) English essayist, parodist & caricaturist

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

There is no hell… there is only France.

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

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


cartoon character in The Simpsons (Julie Kavner)

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.


(1885 – 1945) U.S. Army general