I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomiting. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
We have had suicide bombers in London and we are seeing riots across the Channel. However the media and our Government try to cloud the issue by blaming British and French society and not the terrorists and rioters. They deliberately avoid pinpointing the driving force behind these attacks, which is a religion that is alien to these shores and in its latest fundamental form threatens our very way of life
France is different from the U.S.A.'s El Dorado, American Dream image.
When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what's really happening here. They think Paris is a socialist museum where people are exceptionally good at eating small bits of chocolate and tying scarves.
The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.
I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.
It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in the rearview mirror. But there was no need for us to experience an end to social progress since then.
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.
I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.
I think that in France, we should do like the French people.
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
If it were not for the government, we would have nothing to laugh at in France.
The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.
France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to see only the darkest historical aspects.
In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.
When I want to know what the French people think, I ask myself.
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Gay marriage is a divisive issue in France, where Fillon has vowed to block adoption by same-sex couples. The battle against Islamism also remains a rallying cry; Fillon's campaign manifesto is called 'Conquering Islamic Totalitarianism'.
