Attempting Quote by Horatio Nelson

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every…

— Horatio Nelson

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the…

— Horatio Nelson

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

— Horatio Nelson

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation…

— Marquis de Lafayette

“The French may be straining the truth in their famous saying that “to understand all is to forgive all”,” but it is certainly true…

— Sydney J. Harris

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

— Horace Walpole

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

— Heinz Guderian

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

— Agnes Repplier

I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well there.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

— Josephine Baker

“Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?”

— Pepin the Short

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge