Quotes About Frenchman

He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.

Then I blame our diet. Englishmen were never made to eat fish. Salt water gets in your brain. A German can live on vegetables, he eats what he calls crowte. A Frenchman eats roots and herbs – if he's famished you just turn him out to grass. But an Englishman is bred on bacon and beef.

When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work.

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.

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.

You may be a foreigner, but you have the heart of a Frenchman.

The Frenchman's Gold! Beyond its value as treasure—which would belong to the Crown in any case—the gold had a considerable and personal value to John William Grey. The finding of that half-mythical hoard would be his passport out of Ardsmuir—back to London and civilization.

Frenchman wouldn't seem so dangerous to them. Perhaps. He blinked hard to clear his vision, and was opening his mouth

Two admirals, both on a desperate chase. One after a Frenchman's fleet—and the other, after a Pirate Queen's heart.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

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.

Next thing I know you've run off to Paris and thrown yourself under the nearest Frenchman-