A friend sent me an email with various quotes about France that I thought I would share.
"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from
these drawbacks, it is a fine country. France has usually been
governed by prostitutes."
---Mark Twain
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a
French one behind me."
--- General George S. Patton
"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about
it."
----Marge Simpson
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
--- France's President Jacques Chirac
"As far as France is concerned, you're right."
---Rush Limbaugh
"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German
Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
--- Regis Philbin
"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed
any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True,
you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee,
but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking
large glasses of whiskey I don't know."
--- P.J. O'Rourke (1989)
"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress
of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but
doesn't have the face for it."
---John McCain, U.S. Senator, Arizona
"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein?
Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret.
He is French, people."
--Conan O'Brien
"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us
get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get
the Germans out of France!"
----Jay Leno
"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came
marching into Paris under a German flag."
--David Letterman
Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep
France.
--Unknown
We ought to punish the French and Germans by making the French drink German wine and the Germans drive French cars.
--From the Vent in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution
And yesterday I heard Jeff Greenfield from CNN on Imus call the French 'cheese eatin' surrender monkeys'. Holy Simpsons!
Posted by denny at March 7, 2003 01:35 PM Category: French Bashing