American Quote by Isabelle Adjani

I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in…

— Frederick Wiseman

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French…

— Adam Michnik

French people are strange about America, I think.

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

— Agnes Repplier

“The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries.…

— Maurice Dekobra

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government…

— Pamela Druckerman

France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.

— Emmanuel Petit

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

— Simon Baker

The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is…

— Michael Korda

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'

— Pamela Druckerman

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

— Eric Cantona