Quotes About Frenchman

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided - after weeks or months or sometimes years - that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu.

We had to be up early in the morning. We had a goat race to go to... We asked the old man confident in the knowledge that he, like every Frenchman, would be an expert. "The goats who make the most droppings before the race are likely to do well. An empty goat is faster than a full goat. C'est logique.

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.

It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest....

Stendhal had said a Frenchman was an Italian in a bad mood.

The Corsican nobleman di Buonaparte was now entirely transformed into the French general Bonaparte. The process had been long and difficult: loyal Corsican; mercenary cosmopolitan, ready as an expert artillery officer for service in any land or under any banner; lastly, Frenchman, liberal, and revolutionary.

To the Arabs, hardened by life on the desert, tears from a man were shameful. When the Frenchman Brisson was reduced to weeping in front of the Bou Sbaa, he wrote, "some women perceiving it, instead of being moved to compassion threw sand in my eyes, as they said, to wipe away my tears.

He was a Frenchman through and through, and I had always been susceptible to Gallic flourishes.

The Archangel took his role of fucker seriously. It made him sing the Marseillaise , for now he was proud of being a Frenchman and a Gallic cock, of which only males are proud. Then he died in the war.

I wanted to fold into the 'Hellraiser' narrative something about the guy - the Frenchman Lemarchand - who made the mysterious box, which raises Pinhead. I figured, 'Well, what would have happened to him?' He might well have been taken to Devil's Island, and I thought that would be a pretty cool place to start the movie.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

After realizing that Frenchman and Arab alike were mesmerized by the power of official stamps, the engineers fabricated their own rubber imprimatur and "just stamped the hell out of everything.

Carl Friedrich captured the distinction in 1935: "To be an American is an ideal, while to be a Frenchman is a fact.

A Frenchman, judging from the black turtleneck and the fact that his armpit was a deodorant-free zone.

Yet—some Frenchman had written—"absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.

Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers.

That's where his madness lies: in his incredible confidence, his total optimism. [...] And it was true that Morel seemed to be borne forward by a bewildering, almost contagious, confidence. Fields was beginning to be affected by it in spite of himself, and to feel that nothing would ever happen to his Frenchman.

He was entirely free of what De Gaulle called, in the kitchen Latin of Molière, paralysus respectus, the kind of awed rigidity that seemed to get hold of every Frenchman in the general's presence.

I said to a Frenchman the other day: "I love genius," He answered: "A woman gives genius to the man she loves.

the first and last time in history a Frenchman shirked rest and relaxation to get back to work.

Pierre de la Vérendrye and his companions had encountered a people blessed with material abundance. "Corn, meat, fat, dressed robes, and bearskins" were all among their riches. "They are well supplied with these things," the Frenchman wrote. But his abbreviated journal barely mentions the villagers' equally rich ceremonial life.1

it buried between the fastenings of a Frenchman's corselet. Which is actually not a bad end for a fine dagger like that one.

a monstrous, despotic, iron-fisted Frenchman who ruled his kitchen like President for Life Idi Amin, it was Chef Bernard.