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Insults and Insulting Quotes about France

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How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses? - Charles de Gaulle

A small acquaintance with history shows that all governments are selfish, and the French governments more selfish than most - Lord Eccles

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams. - Thomas Carlyle

It took no more effort than casting a Frenchman into Hell - Dutch saying

Attila, the scourge of God, the French, his brothers - Italian saying

France is a country where the money falls apart in your hands and you can't tear the toilet paper - Billy Wilder

The French write other than they speak, and speak other than they mean

- German saying

The friendship of the French is like their wine, exquisite, but of short duration

- German saying

Paris is like a whore, from a distance she seems ravishing, you can't wait until you have her in your arms. Five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked. - Henry Miller

May the French ulcer love you and the Lord hate you. - Arabian curse

They are a short, blue-vested people who carry their own onions when cycling abroad, and have a yard which is 3.37 inches longer than other people's.

- Alan Coren, British humorist

He lies like a French bulletin. - Dutch saying

When the Frenchman sleeps, the devil rocks him. - French saying (?!)

Only a dog or a Frenchman walks after he has eaten. - French saying

To speak French means not to have any sense. - French colonial saying

French pox and a leather vest wear for life. - German saying

They [the French] do everything; they know nothing. - Italian saying

The French don't say what they mean; don't read as they write, and don't sing according to the notes. - Italian saying

Have the Frenchman for thy friend; not for thy neighbour.

- Nicephorus I, Byzantine emperor

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

- Joseph E. Renan, French philologist, religious writer and historian

A fighting Frenchman runs away from even a she-goat. - Russian saying

The Frenchman's legs are thin, his soul little; he's fickle as the wind. - Russian saying

The Italians are wise before the act, the Germans in the act, the French after the act.

- Saying

France is a dog-hole.

- William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet, All's Well That Ends Well, c.1603

PAUL BOURGET: Life can never be entirely dull to an American. When he has nothing else to do he can always spend a few years trying to discover who his grandfather was.

TWAIN: Right, your Excellency. But I reckon a Frenchman's got a little standby for a dull time too; he can turn in and see if he can find out who his father was.

- Mark Twain, US writer

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighbouring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded airs of superiority.

- Horace Walpole, British letter-writer and memoirist