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And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman — David Coleman

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

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. — Henry Miller

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

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman. — Harry S. Truman

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself. — Horatio Nelson

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. — Ambrose Bierce

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian. — Horatio Nelson

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much. — Arsene Wenger

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive. — Gilles Marini

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States. — Michel Hazanavicius

Never have I know spirits so low they could not be raised by hearing of a Frenchman eaten by a shark! — Ben H. Winters

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. — Art Buchwald

Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchman. They translate into their own language whatever is said to them and forthwith the thing is utterly changed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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. — Paul Theroux

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable. — Ambrose Bierce

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy! — Tom Metzger

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

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. — Oscar Wilde

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

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. — P.G. Wodehouse

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. — P.G. Wodehouse

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet. — Jean-Marie Messier

Frenchman: Germans with good food. — Fran Lebowitz

To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine," he said. — Don Kladstrup

My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right. — Halle Berry

Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman. — Ann Coulter

Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed. — N.D. Wilson

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

There are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion. — Gertrude Stein

So God wants you to marry the girl who believed I was a Frenchman suffering from hemorrhoidal Tourette's? — John Green

Frenchman was tall and thin, with a lugubrious and tired face, but — Bernard Cornwell

He cannot hunt. He cannot sleep. He is angry. He is sad.' The Frenchman ticked off symptoms and jabbed Tom with his elbow. 'He is in love! — Christine Blevins

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips. — Paul Claudel

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. — Bob Hope

Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada — Ted Nugent

'Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Captain America?' They would burn my passport. — Louis Leterrier

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I doubt, dearest child, that you could ever marry a Frenchman. They're not dependable. I've never believed that they're serious Catholics." He — James A. Michener

Like a Frenchman, far from home, catching a whiff of Gauloise. — Stephen Fry

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself. — Horatio Nelson

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. — Heinrich Heine

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. — William Cowper

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman. — Edward Abbey

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Don't tell anyone I said it?"
I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a Frenchman's kitchen. — Brandon Sanderson

There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember. — Brynn Kelly