Abstract Quote by Pamela Druckerman

The French complain of everything, and always.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I know the French mentality.

— Nicolas Anelka

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in…

— Jim Harrison

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

French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

— Vincent Cassel

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

— Eric Cantona

“Many French people were difficult conversationalists. Asking them not only where they were originally from but what they did in life was considered rude—I…

— Edmund White

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

— Agnes Repplier

The French are very individualistic.

— Eric Rohmer

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

— Simon Baker

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

I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then…

— Robert O. Paxton