Famous quotes containing the word frenchman:
“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)
“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)
“A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)