Frenchman Quotes

“We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and fortune, since God has been abolished whose bodyguard we really were. But nobody can ever get woman out of our hearts; there she is, and there she will remain, and we love her, and shall continue to love her, and go on committing all kinds of follies on her account as long as there is a France on the map of Europe; and even if France were to be wiped off the map, there would always be Frenchmen left.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

“Don’t tell anyone I said it?"
I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a Frenchman’s kitchen.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.”
― Brynn Kelly, Edge of Truth

“He observed Morel with a cameraman’s cold, professional stare, trying to decide why he found the man so French; he decided that it was a certain dark cheerfulness, a mixture of anger and irony, the voice and its drawling Parisian accent, and the line of the mouth which somehow always seemed to call for a Gauloise bleue.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“Who needs a French man when there is French cheese? Half as stinky and twice as smart.”
― Stacey Ballis, How to Change a Life

“Don't attempt to teach us how we should be, don't attempt to make us just like you, don't try to have us do well in twenty years what you have done so badly in two thousand.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth

“Napoleon was a true Frenchman in that he was not satisfied with sending hundreds of thousands to their death but wanted in addition to be admired by writers.”
― KUNDERA Milan.