Adams Quote by John Adams

“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

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it…

— Marine Le Pen

“Guises as worthier representatives of France;”

— H.W. Crocker III

“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so…

— Edmund White

“I pitied the French for their naivete in believing that they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“I know of no other place that is so fascinating yet so frustrating, so aware of the world and its own place within it…

— Sarah Turnbull

France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to…

— Marine Le Pen

“just a short trip to any French territory in the Pacific is enough to convince even the most casual observer that the French are…

— Paul Theroux

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

— Alain Juppe

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

“Apparently foreigners were not welcome, or Parisians thought they were superior to all other peoples of the earth. I”

— Paulo Coelho

“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the…

— Josephin Peladan