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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb Colton

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
Wilfrid Laurier

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
Edmond De Goncourt

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
Charlotte Gainsbourg

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.
Mercy Otis Warren

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
Victor Davis Hanson

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
Ferdinand de Saussure

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.
Marion Cotillard

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
Billy Higgins


The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
Peter Ustinov

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.
Michael Servetus

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Stendhal

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
Maurice Chevalier

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
Ahmed Ben Bella

The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The French cook; we open tins.
John Galsworthy

The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.
Curt Weldon

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
Edward V. Lucas

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