Athletic Quote by Anais Nin

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if…

— Henry Miller

“Des Grieux was like all Frenchmen, that is, cheerful and amiable when it was necessary and profitable, and insufferably dull when the necessity to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Gertrude Stein

“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so…

— Edmund White

“Just try to suppose that I may not know how to behave with dignity. That is, perhaps I'm a dignified man, but I don't…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the…

— Josephin Peladan

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

— Charles de Gaulle

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

— Bob Dylan

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

— Marilyn Yalom

The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka,…

— Michel Patini