Crisis Quote by Peter Mayle

“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)”

— E.M. Delafield

Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very…

— Conan O'Brien

“The pressure is on. They've teased me all week, because I've avoided anything that requires ordering. I've made excuses (I'm allergic to beef," "Nothing…

— Stephanie Perkins

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government…

— Pamela Druckerman

France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people…

— Jacques Chirac

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

— Alain Juppe

“French parents don't worry that they're going to damage their kids by frustrating them. To the contrary, they think their kids will be damaged…

— Pamela Druckerman

“Giveaway T-shirts stretched over monstrous beer bellies. Puffy NFL jackets and porky jowls. Granted, I'm in a bowling alley,but the differences between Americans and…

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Vincent Cassel

“I know of no other place that is so fascinating yet so frustrating, so aware of the world and its own place within it…

— Sarah Turnbull

The French complain of everything, and always.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and…

— Honore de Balzac