Humour Quote by Stephen Clarke

“From all my talks with Henri, even the most cordial, I have always left with a slight taste of defeat; of also having been,…

— Primo Levi

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

“The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the accordion, and…

— Saša Stanišić

“...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

“In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was from the…

— Yann Martel

“These trumpeters of reality are bad musicians.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“They were so posh that even their Dutch sounded French.”

— Stefan Hertmans

“Charlotte Yates didn’t especially care for music. All that abstract mooning about. Words, that was what moved people. A good play was worth a…

— Magnus Flyte

“Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear.”

— Jean-Claude Izzo

“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come…

— Tahir Shah

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

— E.M. Delafield

“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