Excellence Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Agnes Repplier

“The French (and Europeans in general) place a high value on speaking quietly in restaurants and on trains.”

— Rick Steves

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

— Gordon Ramsay

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

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

— Simon Baker

I know the French mentality.

— Nicolas Anelka

“Every man's Paris is his own, with its own characteristics, and is in some respects at least unlike the Paris of any one else.”

— Sidney Dark

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.

— Ian Shoales

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

— John Wilmot

“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

It must be something extraordinary to be able to say to yourself that the happiness of every French person is in your hands.

— Kylian Mbappe

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

— Charles de Gaulle