Frenchmen Quote by Horatio Nelson Download Open image “Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.” — Horatio Nelson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frenchmen Funny Inspirational Love Maritime Naval
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Max,' I said, looking up at him, 'I love the Russian heritage you guys are so willing to share, but I'm not so thrilled… — Shannon Delany Copy Share Image
“As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.” — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse,… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La… — Zinedine Zidane Copy Share Image
Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be… — F. Huegel Copy Share Image
I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
