A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals-apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Boy those French, they have a different word for everything.