France is the most popular tourist destination globally, and travelers are fascinated by its food, culture, landscapes, and lifestyle. France entices visitors of all ages with some of the world’s most noted architecture, excellent gastronomy, gorgeous seasides, vivid ski resorts, lovely countryside, and intriguing history.
France has always kept the travelers attracted, and it remains the world’s most traveled destination for global tourists.
Are you looking for some of the most beautiful quotes about France? Here is the list of 40+ France Travel Quotes that are as mesmerizing as this country itself is.
So let’s get inspired to travel to France, and yes, “Bon Voyage!”
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40+ Beautiful Quotes About France
“Everything ends this way in France – everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs – everything is a pretext for a good dinner.” – Jean Anouilh
“I like France, where everybody thinks he’s Napoleon–down here everybody thinks he’s Christ.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I do not believe there is another city on earth so beautiful as Paris nor another people with such an appreciation of the beautiful as the French…” – Edward Hopper
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway
“France has a clear and define policy… the French know what they want.” – Anton Chekov
“I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality, and fraternity.” – Josephine Baker
“France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older – intelligence and good manners.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.” – Julia Child
“In France, we have a saying, ‘Joie de vivre,’ which actually doesn’t exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.” – Mireille Guiliano
“France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.” – Barbara Cartland
“How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?” – Charles de Gaulle
“Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and the lust of the eyes.” – Henry James
“Every man has two countries: his own and France.” – John F. Kennedy
“Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.” – Brian Fallon
“The wonderful thing about Paris is that nobody judges you for doing nothing” – Emily in Paris
“Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“Paris is the only city where you can step out of a railway station —and see, the seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries gardens, the Place De La Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—what other city offers as much as you leave a train?“ – Margaret Anderson
“I love Paris in the springtime, I love Paris in the fall, I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles.” – Ella Fitzgerald
“The French air cleans up the brain and does good-a world of good.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn
“You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.” – Dave Barry
“France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.” – Joachim du Bellay
“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.” – Victor Hugo
“I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France” – Adrian Lyne
“Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.” – Charles de Gaulle
“Paris is not a city; it’s a world.” – King Francis I
“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.” – Thomas Jefferson
“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living for ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” – Roman Payne
“London is a riddle, Paris is an explanation.” – G.K. Chesterton
“… you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
“France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.” – John Gunther
“I was lost in France, in the fields the birds were singing, I was lost in France, and the day was just beginning, as I stood there in the morning.” – Bonnie Tyler
“Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never be elegant.” – Honoré de Balzac
“But of Paris, it can be said that the right bank of the Seine belongs to the world, and the left bank to France.” – Mary Butts
“What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!” – Charles Dickens
“To know Paris is to know a great deal.” – Henry Miller
“You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?” – Karl Lagerfeld
“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise.” – Jules Renard
“Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.” – Lee Radziwill
“The Seine. I have painted it all my life, at all hours of the day, at all times of the year, from Paris to the sea…Argenteuil, Poissy, Vétheuil, Giverny, Rouen, Le Havre.” – Claude Monet
“It is true that in France, women put on fewer things. If they have a necklace, they don’t put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don’t put on all their rings and all their bracelets. “ – Ines de La Fressange
“France is beautiful. I stood at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower today and looked up at it. There are very few times in my life I’ve felt so small.” – Leisa Rayven
“God, it’s good to be eating in France again.” – Jack Iams
“The French Riviera is the greenhouse where the roots grow. Paris is the shop where the flowers are sold.” – Jean Coctea