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“They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person…

— Nick Yapp

“I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”

— Anonymous

“This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.”

— Mark Zero

Among our many crimes as an imperialistic exploiter of other nations' cultures, stealing their movies ranks lower than selling them cigarettes but higher than…

— Stephen Hunter

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The entire piece has been devised with the French in mind. In France, fornication in the streets with total strangers is *compulsory*.”

— John Wilmot

“If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe…

— Robert Masello

“Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear.”

— Jean-Claude Izzo

“In French eyes, it was of course doubly wrong to execute a beautiful woman.”

— Stephen Clarke

“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

“The French do some things better, like spanking for instance.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner.”

— Tartt Donna