Frenchman

Famous quotes containing the word frenchman:

“A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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 (1891–1980)

“The Frenchman Jean-Paul ... Sartre I remember now was his last name had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)