"GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman……" — Ambrose Bierce
"GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason."
More Frenchman Quotes
- A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and… — Art Buchwald
- I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write… — Ronald Reagan
- You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as… — Horatio Nelson
- I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge. To me it's against the spirit of the game, and maybe it… — Jean van de Velde
- The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a… — Paul Claudel
- Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman. — Edward Abbey
- The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest… — Karl Marx
- Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their… — Wendell Phillips
- But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.… — Michel Hazanavicius
- I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet. — Jean-Marie Messier
- Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself. — Horatio Nelson
- Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal… — Hervey Allen