A Quote by John Maynard Keynes

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes
English - Economist
June 5, 1883 - April 21, 1946

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

Mark Twain

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

Ernst Toller

The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.

Will Durant

Disillusion is the last illusion.

Wallace Stevens

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

Bobby Heenan

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

T. S. Eliot

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Elbert Hubbard

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

Charles de Gaulle

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Jacques Barzun

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

Paul Brunton

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

John Ashbery

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Larry McMurtry

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

Richard Dawkins

Our international role depends on a strong Europe and a strong Europe depends on France's ability to share leadership with others, including Germany. If France is economically weak and doesn't carry out reforms, it is no longer credible. Europe's position on the global stage is thus weakened. I would like to change all that. France needs a strong Germany and a strong chancellor. But Germany also needs a strong France.

Emmanuel Macron

When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

Barbara Tuchman

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