C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

France

A monarchy tempered by songs.

Chamfort.

Decayed in thy glory and sunk in thy worth.

Byron.

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man’s foot.

Shakespeare.

Studious to please, and ready to submit; the supple Gaul was born a parasite.

Johnson.

Gay, sprightly land of mirth and social ease,
Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.

Goldsmith.

’Tis better using France than trusting France;
Let us be back’d with God, and with the seas,
Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
And with their helps only defend ourselves;
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

Shakespeare.

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