FRANCE

Related Subjects: Europe, Paris

1. The thirst for truth is not a French passion.—AMIEL, Journal
   

2. France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by songs.—Anonymous
   

3. The King of France went up the hill
   With twenty thousand men
   The King of France came down the hill,
   And ne'er went up again.—Anonymous, Old Tarleton's Song
   

4. France, fam'd in all great arts, in none supreme.—MATTHEW ARNOLD, To A Republican Friend
   

5. The most frivolous and fickle of civilised nations—they pass from the game of war to the game of peace, from the game of science to the game of art, from the game of liberty to the game of slavery, from the game of slavery to the game of licence.—WALTER BAGEHOT, Literary Studies
   

6. The further off from England the nearer is to France.—LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
   

7. Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible; but mass them together, they are terrible indeed!—COLERIDGE, Table Talk
   

8. Citizen, I have just arrived from Caen. Your love for your native place doubtless makes you wish to learn the events which have occurred in that part of the republic. I shall call at your residence in about an hour. Be so good as to receive me and give me a brief interview. I will put you in such condition [she planned to assassinate him] as to render great service to France.—CHARLOTTE CORDAY,
   Letter to Marat
   

9. The French woman says, "I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human."—EMERSON, Lectures
   

10. No country in the world is so passionately enamored of literary and art movements as France, and no nation is so partial to labels.—JOHN GASSNER,
    Masters of the Drama
    

11. Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease,
    Pleas'd with thyself, whom all the world can please.—GOLDSMITH, The Traveller
    

12. Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.—Attributed to TEXAS GUINAN
    

13. Never go to France
    Unless you know the lingo,
    If you do, like me,
    You will repent, by jingo.—THOMAS HOOD, French and English
    

14. Never was there a country where the practice of governing too much had taken deeper root and done more mischief.—JEFFERSON
    

15. The French are excellent in this, they have a book on every subject.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

16. A Frenchman loves his mother—in the abstract.—H. S. MERRIMAN, The Sowers
    

17. Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.—EMPEROR NICEPHORUS
    

18. My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

19. 'Tis better using France than trusting France.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

20. That sweet enemy, France.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, Astrophel and Stella
    

21. A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.—JOSEPH SIEYES
    

22. Lafayette, we are here.—CHARLES E. STANTON, Said at the disembarking of the
    A. E. F. in France.
    

23. "They order," said I, "this matter better in France."—STERNE, A Sentimental Journey
    

24. If they have a fault, they are too serious.—STERNE, A Sentimental Journey
    

25. It [French] is the true and native language of insincerity.—ALFRED SUTRO, A Marriage Has Been Arranged
    

26. The cross of the Legion of
    Honor has been conferred upon me.
    However, few escape that distinction.—MARK TWAIN, A Tramp Abroad

27. I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighbouring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded airs of superiority.—SIR ROBERT WALPOLE