Nicolas Anelka Quotes

The French are consistent.

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

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.

The French are ... the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

I am typically French.

When I want to know what the French people think, I ask myself.

The French are people who think otherwise.

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.

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

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 just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

I am Parisian. I don't love the French.

What unites us is an unconditional love for France.