Frenchmen Quotes

• 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

  Summer, Winter, France

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• Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Courage, Humorous

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• The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Morning, Husband

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• there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

  Gertrude Stein

  Fashion, Two Sides, People

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6152, Delphi Classics

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• Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.

  Roy Blunt

  Paris, Know How, Knows

  "French Jokes Gain Wide Audiences" by Sharon Kehnemui, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2003.

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• Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

  Horatio Nelson

  Devil, Treats, Ifs

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• There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

  David Frost

  Sarcastic, Running, Government

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• Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

  Charles de Gaulle

  Passion, Equality, Want

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• Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Humorous, Math

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• Frenchman: Germans with good food.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Good Food

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• The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Vanity, Differences

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.119

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• A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

  Heinrich Heine

  Praying, Lord, Britain

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.103

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• A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

  Art Buchwald

  Want, Nervous, Breakdown

  Art Buchwald (1977). “Down the Seine and up the Potomac with Art Buchwald”, Fawcett Books

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• The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Eye, Anxiety, Want

  'Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835' 18 May

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• Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

  Gilles Marini

  Girl, Sexy, Speaks French

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• The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ruffles, England, Shirts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.89

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• I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can't become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Italy, but you can't become a German, an Italian. He went through Turkey, Greece, Japan and other countries. But he said anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Writing, Men

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• I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

  Josephine Baker

  Insults You, Paris, Comeback

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• The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Two, Friendly

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Coal, Pits, Alive

  "Khrushchev: A Career". Book by Edward Crankshaw, p. 12, 1966.

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• Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

  Moliere

  Indulge In, Literature, Gallantry

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• At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Savages, Idiot

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.9, University of Georgia Press

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• I think a lot of these terms, nationalistic things, somebody is an American, or somebody is a Frenchman, or somebody is a Jew, I don't know, it doesn't mean anything to me. You really should start augmenting these words, saying what kind. If you want to say somebody is a Jew, what do you mean by that? Does he have blonde hair? I think a lot of these ancient nationalistic and ethnic terms have kind of lost their meaning, or their meaning is so broad, it's nothing. It's like he's connected to the ancient world. Everybody is.

  Ben Katchor

  Mean, Thinking, Hair

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother, Home, Paris

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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