“In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.” – Mark Twain

“Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything.” – Steve Martin

“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Germans with good food.” – Fran Lebowitz

“There would come a time when, if I had compared my life to a cake, the sojourns in Paris would have presented the chocolate filling. The intervening layers were plain sponge.”
– A. J. Liebling

“All Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The French make two mistakes about me: They think I’m an intellectual because of my glasses. And they think I'm an artist because my films always lose money.” –Woody Allen

“It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.” – French management saying