Quotes and Sayings about France

You need to find yourself a nice French boyfriend. That's the best way to learn the language. In bed.

Antoine Lambert in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Threatening the British by saying there will be only salt and vinegar on the table, is like threatening the French by saying there will only be wine and baguettes, or threatening the Swiss by saying there'll only be chocolate and Nazi gold.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) - Brexit II

England & Great Britain Switzerland

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Gaulle

Cheese

We need to think about how young people use social networks. When things get out of hand we may have to regulate them or cut them off.

Emmanuel Macron - July 2023, about the riots in France

Social Media

We will come back.

Kylian Mbappé - December 2022, on Argentina winning the World Cup

FIFA World Cup 2022

Lino: "You're in the country known for the best food."
Amy: "I thought the French were known for the best food."
Lino: "You don't want the French to make you pasta."

Lino in From Scratch - Season 1 Episode 1

Pasta

In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.

Marine Le Pen

Mathieu: "Do you know what the French do when things are at their darkes? When the bombs were falling during World War II, know what they did?"
Emily: "Hid?"

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 9

Your language is seriously fed up.

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with.

Merovingian in The Matrix - Reloaded

The French are romantics, but they're also realists.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1

For me, I have always thought a squad comes before everything. I always make decisions for the good of the French national team.

Karim Benzema

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

Cheese

I'm proud to represent my country.

Raphaël Varane

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

Emmanuel Macron

European Union

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles de Gaulle

The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

Dennis Miller

Iraq

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to France - and that's practically the same thing.

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So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

Madeline Wheeler in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 3

Paris

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Harry Houdini

Russia Paris

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

Paris Sydney

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art Paris

Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Glenn Quagmire in Family Guy

Paris

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Paris

Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

Camille in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4

Paris

Of course, I love Paris. And the food is so delicious. The fashion, so chic. The lights, so magical. But the people, so mean.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 1

Paris

It's Paris. Everyone's serious about dinner.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Paris

You go to Saint-Tropez to party, not to work. It's like going to Ibiza to do your taxes.

Luc in Emily in Paris - Season 2 Episode 2

Côte d'Azur Ibiza

Wild, wild enough
Too much money in the bank account
Hands in the air make you scream and shout
When we're in St. Tropez

Kalenna Harper - Welcome to St. Tropez

Côte d'Azur

Emily: "I'm levelling up to French II. And I have to focus, because I need more oral."
Mindy: "I don't think that's your issue. You can consummate in French... just not conjugate."

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 2 Episode 4

Camille: "There is only one way to get a guy out of your system."
Mindy: "You have sex with another one."

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 2 Episode 2

I never complained about people comparing me to asparagus. Because talking of asparagus... the head is the most important part.

Charles de Gaulle

Asparagus

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

Humanity Animals Dogs

There comes a time, brothers, where history is forged like melted cheese. It sticks together as one, but it's still soft and squishy in the middle.

Michelangelo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Cheese

To you, she was your Queen.
To us, she was The Queen.
She will be with all of us forever.

Emmanuel Macron - September 2022

Death of Queen Elizabeth II

Emily: "I feel we've made it pretty clear we can't just be friends."
Gabriel: "But we live on top of each other."
Emily: "You're proving my point."

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 8

Desire does not mean lack of respect. In fact, quite the opposite. It is a sign of respect.

Antoine Lambert in Emily in Paris - Season 1

Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.

Finding Neverland

Children & Childhood Bed

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Courage

The last thing a lion wants is to have his dinner handed to him on a silver platter.

Harvey Specter in Suits - Season 4 Episode 1

Lions Hunting

Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Germany Fairytales

Violet: "I'm so looking forward to seeing your mother again. When I'm with her, I'm reminded of the virtues of the English."
Matthew: "But isn't she American?"
Violet: "Exactly."

Violet Crawley in Downton Abbey

England & Great Britain

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and by Shakespeare. Neither knew chocolate. The Swiss are known for nonviolence. They are also known for superb chocolate.

Sandra Boynton

Chocolate Griechenland Switzerland

The number of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12.

Adolf Hitler Jesus Popularity Social Media

I'm very happy to be developing my skills in France, the country where I was born and grew up. I have tried to always keep challenging myself.

Kylian Mbappé - Mai 2022, nach Vertragsverlängerung bei PSG

Paris Saint-Germain

I will be world champion, my love. It is written. And I will score a goal.

Ángel Di María (as player for Argentina) - December 2022, the night before the World Cup final

FIFA World Cup 2022

In Italy, we have a saying, "Love rules without rules."

Lino in From Scratch - Season 1 Episode 1

Italy

"Who eats spaghetti with chopsticks?"
"Like a billion people."

Kaleidoscope - Season 1

Pasta

We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

Marine Le Pen

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