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11 Quotes for 'France' in the Database.
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France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads.
[Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, temperee par des
chansons.]
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Source: None
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The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk,
Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,
Is always happy, reign whoever may,
And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Table Talk (l. 237)
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I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden
shoes.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Essays (24 (1765 ed.)), appeared in the "British Magazine", June, 1760
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Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease
Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 241), said of France
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Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us
Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Fudge Family (8)
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Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.
Author: Nicephorus
Source: said while treating with ambassadors of Charlemagne
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It is the fortune of France.
[Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]
Author: Nicephorus
Source: said while treating with ambassadors of Charlemagne
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Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which
nourished my infancy!
[Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France!
O, ma patrie
La plus cherie,
Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance!
Adieu, France--adieu, mes beaux jours.]
Author: Anne Gabriel M. de Querlon
Source: a forgery sometimes attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots
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One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs.
[Fr., On connoit en France 685 manieres differentes d'accommoder
les oeufs.]
Author: Anne Gabriel M. de Querlon
Source: a forgery sometimes attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots
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Ye sons of France, awake to glory!
Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!
Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Author: Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Source: The Marseilles Hymn
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A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.
[Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.]
Author: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
Source: Note to Mirabeau, said of France
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