Frenchman Quotes

50 quotes by 43 authors

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about… — Art Buchwald
I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he… — Ronald Reagan
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil… — Horatio Nelson
I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge. To me it's against the spirit of the game, and maybe it would have been against the… — Jean van de Velde
The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your… — 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 Pole -- besides being an… — Karl Marx
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… — Wendell Phillips
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… — 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 civilization with its aristocracy and… — Hervey Allen
It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to… — Anita Loos
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality — Charles de Gaulle
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as… — Mark Twain
The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is… — Peter Mayle
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. — William Cowper
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all… — Michel de Montaigne
Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy! — Tom Metzger
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. — Ambrose Bierce

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