Cheese Quote by Theodore Beale

“A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Note to Mirabeau, speaking of France]”

— Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

“It's all about the "French Paradox," that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of wine, yet…

— Julie Powell

Frenchman: Germans with good food.

— Fran Lebowitz

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

— Homer

The Germans, a race eager for war.

— Seneca the Younger

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

— Willa Cather

The Germans must be together.

— Angelique Kerber

“It was turning out to be an anxious Christmas season. Too many were the early mornings spent sitting at the table, insomniac in the…

— David Rakoff

“the Germans had built redoubts both sturdy and comfortable, homes away from home. Behind the lines, German soldiers cultivated gardens of fresh vegetables and…

— Joseph E. Persico

“According to legend, when a monkey survived a shipwreck off the north-east coast near Hartlepool during the Napoleonic wars, it was hanged as a…

— Anonymous

“They were pleased to eat more Nazis, although nervous about too many disappearances being noticed. More troubling, however, was the flavor. Nazis were nearly…

— Anonymous

“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were shot, or—to economize on bullets—bayoneted or…

— Adam Hochschild