Quote by Alexandre Dumas

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try…

— Edward Hopper

“The entire piece has been devised with the French in mind. In France, fornication in the streets with total strangers is *compulsory*.”

— John Wilmot

“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense…

— John Adams

“Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their…

— Mark Twain

“I should add, however, by way of justification of French politeness, that our fellow-countrymen are, when travelling, models of good manners in comparison with…

— Guy de Maupassant

“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)”

— E.M. Delafield

“Many French people were difficult conversationalists. Asking them not only where they were originally from but what they did in life was considered rude—I…

— Edmund White

There is a certain dignity to being French.

— Brigitte Bardot

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

— Agnes Repplier

“Guises as worthier representatives of France;”

— H.W. Crocker III

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the…

— Rex Stout