American army Quote by Michael G. Kramer

“...a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn…

— Henry Fielding

“The Frenchmen tried to explain that sexual intercourse between males was taboo (despite anything the Brits might have told them about French sailors),”

— Stephen Clarke

“I phoned the Admiral back. 'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.' There was a short pause on the end of…

— Tim Fitzhigham

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel…

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Alain Juppe

“I did pick up a few tolerably ripe and breezy expressions out in France. All through my military career there was something about me…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“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

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

— Heinz Guderian

“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

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French…

— Lauren Willig

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein