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Frenchman

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collective noun

is strictly observant of great matters and disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones. Honore de Balzac

is the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on earth.

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

is marked by a small dose of unreason in all French esprit, for logic is necessary but ought not to be taken straight... one must never wish to be solely and entirely right, which is what all pure logic aims at.

Espritasun-Greek.- The Greeks wereof nourishment that is fit for prisoners if it is to be taken straight, with nothing added. In good society one must never wish to be solely and entirely right, which is what all pure logic aims at... hence the small dose of unreason in all French esprit. The sociability of the Greeks was far less developed than that of the French has been and still is. That is why we find so little esprit even in their most spirited men, so little wit even in their wittiest men, and-alas, even these sentences will meet with disbelief. and how many more of that sort I am tempted to add! -Est res magna tacere2°-said Martial, like all garrulous people.

is a wine-guzzling, cheese-eating surrender monkey.

The Americans have called the French, 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys', a description I totally disagree with. They left out, 'wine-guzzling'.

is one for whom a bad liver is what a nervous breakdown is to an American; everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

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.

is not much good at fighting wars any more. Despite their reputation for fashion, their women have spindly legs. Their music is sappy. But they do know how to whip up a plate of grub.

is a man who kisses other men on the cheeks and girls on all fours.

is a farmyard animal, so well domesticated that he dares not jump over any fence. Witness his taste in art and literature.

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