Frenchmen Quotes - Page 2

• In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Cracks, Matter

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• Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany.  That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Believe, Eye

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• Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Together, Gunpowder, France

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.364

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• Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.

  Dennis Prager

  Vacation, Numbers, Citizens

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Weakness, Firsts

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Country, President, Together

  K. M. Kostyal, Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009). “Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era: the man and his times”, Natl Geographic Society

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• Las mujeres, como dijo una vez un francés ingenioso, nos inspiran el deseo de hacer obras maestras y siempre nos impiden llevarlas a cabo.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Inspire, Desire

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.96, First Avenue Editions

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• The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Devil, Thanks

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• Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

  William Cowper

  Truth, Brilliant, Knows

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.82

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• It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Fun, Race

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• Algún cínico francés ha dicho que en una transacción amorosa hay dos partes: la que ama y la que condesciende a ser tratada así.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Partido, Dos, Cínico

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). "Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)", p.160, Diversion Books.

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• There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to fight with each other. The set piece that shapes and contains quarrels in homogeneous countries does not exist here. The Frenchman is an expert on the precise gradations of espèce de and the Italian knows exactly when to introduce the subject of his other's grave, but no American can be sure how or when another will react, so we zap each other with friendliness to neutralize potentially dangerous situations.

  Florence King

  Country, Fighting, Italian

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.83, Macmillan

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• El fracaso de la Reforma en conquistar Francia no había dejado a los franceses ningún punto intermedio entre la infalibilidad y la infidelidad; y mientras el intelecto de Alemania e Inglaterra se movía tranquilamente en las líneas de la evolución religiosa, la mente de Francia saltaba de la fe ardiente que había masacrado a los hugonotes a la fría hostilidad con la que La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach y Diderot se volvieron contra la religión de los padres.

  Will Durant

  Religioso, Padre, Casa

  "Historia de la Filosofía".

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• The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.

  Karl Marx

  Hate, Struggle, Men

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• This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

  Bobby Heenan

  Paris, France

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• En primer lugar, debes obedecer siempre implícitamente las órdenes, sin intentar formarte una opinión propia sobre su conveniencia. En segundo lugar, debes considerar enemigo a todo aquel que hable mal de tu rey; y en tercer lugar, debes odiar a un francés como al diablo.

  Horacio Nelson

  Kings, Hate, Men

  Horatio Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793) as quoted in "Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte, Etc., Etc., Etc, Volume 2" edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (p. 580), 1849.

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• Los caballeros americanos son una mezcla de ingleses y franceses, pero en realidad no se parecen a ninguno de los dos. Son más refinados y modestos que los franceses, y menos varoniles, tímidos y rudos que los ingleses. Sus cerebros son más finos y endebles, sus cuerpos menos robustos y vigorosos que los nuestros. Nosotros somos los animales más finos y ellos los espíritus más sutiles. Su tendencia intelectual es a la excitación y la locura, y la nuestra al estancamiento y la estupidez.

  Fanny Kemble

  Animal, Men, Stupidity

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• Sólo existe una cura para las canas. La inventó un francés. Se llama guillotina.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humor, Cabello, Envejecer

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• No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

  Argus Hamilton

  Race, Looks, Wonder

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• Fue un estadounidense quien dijo que, mientras que la verdad de un francés se asemejaba a una línea recta, la de un galés se asemejaba más a una curva, y es un hecho que los asuntos galos se enredan siempre en parábolas, dobles sentidos e insinuaciones. Esto hace que el interés sea similar al de una telaraña.

  Jan Morris

  Curvas, líneas, hechos

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• Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

  Tom Metzger

  Crazy, White, Madness

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• The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

  Winston Churchill

  Fit, Infinite, Almighty

  Winston Churchill (1952). "Discursos de Guerra: Del 25 de junio de 1941 al 6 de septiembre de 1943"

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• Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

  Horacio Nelson

  Naval, Maritime

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• GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Machines, Reason

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.81, 谷月社

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