Able Quote by Robert Orben

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

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is…

— Michael Korda

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

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

French people are strange about America, I think.

— Michel Hazanavicius

“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

It's because of this massive immigration and more in some places, (that) France's image has undeniably changed. There are a number of neighborhoods where…

— Marine Le Pen

When people live on our territory and are not criminals, they do not dispute our laws or our ways of living, our customs, our…

— Marine Le Pen

It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.

— Eric Ripert

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America.…

— Mark Twain

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

— Robert Crumb

It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced…

— David Sedaris