Getting shot Quote by Mark Stein

“If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was…

— Michael Shaara

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others…

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago…

— William Arthur Sirmon

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

“Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans. But old cultures…

— Saul Bellow

“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

“But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do…

— Frederick the Great

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

“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

“The question was simply this: Would the world be French or British?”

— Niall Ferguson

Traveling through France in regular times, for better or worse, I am simply perceived as an American.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams