523 France Quotes for You to Enjoy

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. Edith Piaf

Me People Speak Language Nothing France Understand Same Native Where Successful

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s. Edmund Phelps

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others. Edmund Phelps

Others France Possess Italy Germany Than Dynamism Less Appear

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry. Edmund White

Good Angry Relatives Few Good Friends Books Once France Mine High Would Ring City Pretty Mentioned Writer New French Wrote Boy Got Review Up Friends Very Mocking Times York New York

America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts. Edmund White

Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section. Edmund White

Gay People Black France Bookstore Say Those Section Though Would See About Write Studies He Absurd Nobody Look French She Go Subjects Person Even Novelist Ever Jewish

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover. Edward Grey

Good Country France Would Would-Be Recover Never Name Make Altogether Germany Disgrace Expense Which Apart Us Bargain

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France. Edward Grey

War Country France Critical Outbreak Would Week Through Parliament Take Cabinet Had Knew Support Contingency Very Probable Decide Whether Should Doubtful View Moment Whole

Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time. Elaine Sciolino

Time Relationship Together Complicated Post President Herself Ran Once France Minister Exceptionally Cabinet Over Years Senior Children Who Lived Four Royal Two Raising

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. Emily Greene Balch

France Diminished Italy Austria Germany Role Japan Suffered Britain

France has to accelerate in terms of reform. Emmanuel Macron

France Terms Accelerate Reform

We need to go faster on structural reforms in France. Emmanuel Macron

Faster France Structural Go Reforms Need

We back Hinkley Point project. It's very important for France; it's very important for the nuclear sector and EDF. Emmanuel Macron

Important Back Project France Sector Point Very Nuclear

We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore this growth. Emmanuel Macron

France Restore Struggling Recover Lack Hard Europe Eurozone Growth

There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, closed France. On the other hand, you have my project which is a republican, patriotic project aiming at... reconciling France. Emmanuel Macron

You Closed Other Aiming Project France Projects Pen Reconciling Facing Hand Patriotic Which Republican Each Two Fractured Marine

I'm a child of provincial France. Emmanuel Macron

France Provincial Child

France has always succeeded because it is part of the world. Emmanuel Macron

World France Part Because Always Succeeded

I want to become the president of all the people of France - the president of the patriots in the face of the threat from the nationalists. Emmanuel Macron

People Face Become President France Threat Want Patriots

France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up in pieces forever because of the decision... to exclude, to brand one party as guilty and annihilate them. Emmanuel Macron

Decision Fire Party France Worst Guilty One Party Given Annihilate Exclude Pieces She Because Up Bloodshed Brand Forever Famine Experienced Them Chopped Nearly Things

I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe. Emmanuel Macron

Will France Vital Protect Interests Europe Defend

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