Frenchmen Quotes - Page 4

• To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Robins, Speaking French, Speak

  Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë (2011). “25 Favorite Novels”, p.5417, Smashbooks

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• Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Country, Strong, Powerful

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• Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state." I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin can say that. All other citizens are nothing more than human material with which they can do all kinds of things.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Russia, People, Citizens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

  Ring Lardner, Jr.

  Wine, Water, Alcohol

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• He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Food, Cooking, Sandwiches

  Ford Madox Ford (1971). “The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions”

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Faithful, France, Epoch

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• An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me forth a "new creation." He terminated my old life when there upon the Cross as Representative He died; and He imparted to me a new life when He arose from the grave.

  F. Huegel

  Christian, New Life, Resurrection

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• France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.17, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Average

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• A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

  Paul Theroux

  Wonderful, Sore Throat, Traveler

  Paul Theroux (1989). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Women, Animal, Burrowing

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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• France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

  Harry S. Truman

  France

  Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1998). “Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959”, p.261, University of Missouri Press

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• I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.

  Jean-Marie Messier

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• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Past, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

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• An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

  Austin O'Malley

  Thinking, Pacing, Englishmen

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• Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

  Wendell Phillips

  Character, Men, Years

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• Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

  Hervey Allen

  Civilization, Leaving, Departed

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• But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, Important, Directors

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• The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Laughing, May

  William Cowper (1866). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.26

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• Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Sports, Blood, Hands

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

  Edward Abbey

  Growing Up, Careers, Grows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Country, Rome, Paris

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• Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada

  Ted Nugent

  Canada

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

  John Maynard Keynes

  France, Illusion, Economics

  The Economic Consequences of the Peace ch. 3 (1919)

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• If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, War

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