Devil Quote by Horatio Nelson

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

— 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

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

— Horatio Nelson

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

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 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 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

“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and preen as…

— Lynn Messina

“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

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but,…

— Francois Rabelais

“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense…

— John Adams