The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Well, you know those Frenchmen. Always anxious to share their big baguettes.’” I” — Kenneth C. Johnson Copy Share Image
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn"… — F. Huegel Copy Share Image
I think a lot of these terms, nationalistic things, somebody is an American, or somebody is a Frenchman, or somebody is a… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen. — Bobby Heenan Copy Share Image
Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried. — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle… — Zinedine Zidane Copy Share Image
France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the… — Meriwether Lewis Copy Share Image
The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
![“The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.” quote by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/74e/charles-augustin-sainte-beuve_approach_the-nearest-approach-to-the-infallible-i_848491.jpg)
