Daring Quote by Manfred von Richthofen

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

— Jane Birkin

You have the intelligence front and the engagement front. On the intelligence front, the French are better than many of their European counterparts. But…

— Michael Leiter

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

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

— Wilfrid Sheed

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

— Simon Baker

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

— Thomas Carlyle

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,…

— Bernard Pivot

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

— Gordon Ramsay

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don't begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In…

— Monty Don

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation…

— Edmond de Goncourt

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

— Sophie Marceau