- Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- Get me some French tailor To new-create you.~ Philip Massinger
- Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.~ Nicephorus
- I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.~ Oliver Goldsmith
- I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.~ V. Charles
- One Englishman can beat three Frenchmen.~ Italian Proverb
- Speaking French is no proof of intelligence.~ Creole Proverb
- The French complain of everything, and always.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.~ Jean Jacque Rousseau
- The Frenchman sings well, when his throat is moistened. ~ Portuguese Proverb
- The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.~ French Proverb
- The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.~ Francis Bacon
- The Germans in the stable, the Czech in the kitchen and the French in bed.~ Czech Proverb
- The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.~ George Herbert
- The Italians cry, the Germans bawl, and the French sing. ~ French Proverb
- There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.~ J. Finod De
- The Italian seems wise, and is wise; the Spaniard seems wise, and is a fool; the French seems a fool, and is wise; and the English seems a fool and is a fool. ~ Common Proverb
- To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse–German.~ Jason Chamberlain
- Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge. ~ French Proverb
- When the Frenchman sleeps the devil rocks him. ~ French Proverb
- We French found it and called it joie de vivre — the joy of living.~ Rene Repound
