Frenchmen Quotes - Page 4

• A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

  Paul Theroux

  Wonderful, Sore Throat, Traveler

  Paul Theroux (1989). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Average

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• France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.17, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything but what I am. And so in the Christian life. I must be born anew. That is why Christ took me with Himself down into the grave and brought me forth a "new creation." He terminated my old life when there upon the Cross as Representative He died; and He imparted to me a new life when He arose from the grave.

  F. Huegel

  Christian, New Life, Resurrection

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• The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Laughing, May

  William Cowper (1866). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.26

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• I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Dialect Coach, Trying, Months

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Teacher, Three, Wonderful

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• Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.

  N.D. Wilson

  Knowing, Littles, Trouble

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Genre

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• The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Reflection, Knights

  'The Spectator' no. 383, 20 May 1712

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• Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Thinking, Who I Am, Proud

  2004 Explaining his identity-his father was a Berber from the Kabylie region of Algeria and Zidane grew up in the Marseille suburb of La Castellane. In the Observer, 4 Apr.

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• If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, War

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• Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada

  Ted Nugent

  Canada

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• The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Country, Rome, Paris

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• For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Faithful, France, Epoch

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

  Agnes Repplier

  Mind, France, Habit

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• He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Food, Cooking, Sandwiches

  Ford Madox Ford (1971). “The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: Memories and impressions”

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• France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every citizen. No Frenchman need ever fear that catastrophic illness will wipe him out financially. How long, do you suppose, will it take us, in the United States, to catch up?

  Suzanne Massie

  Country, Long, Principles

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• I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

  Mark Twain

  Horse, Believe, Speaks French

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1020, Library of America

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• A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, England, Cleanliness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.48

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• ... far be it from a Frenchman to interfere with love.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Interfere

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• Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

  Ring Lardner, Jr.

  Wine, Water, Alcohol

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• Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state." I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin can say that. All other citizens are nothing more than human material with which they can do all kinds of things.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Russia, People, Citizens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Two

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• But if I were asked to pick one constant, one quality that seems dependable, immutable, endlessly available, I'd say that it was intensity. For nothing in Sicily seems withheld, done half way, restrained or suppressed. There's nothing to correspond to say, the ironic, the cerebral remove at which a Frenchman might consider an idea or a question, or the Scandinavian distrust of the sloppy, emotive response.

  Francine Prose

  Ideas, Ironic, Quality

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