Frenchmen Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

  Norman Mailer

  Evil, Mind, Machines

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• My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right.

  Halle Berry

  Smell, Partners

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