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Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

— Horatio Nelson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

— Horatio Nelson

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.

— Jean-Marie Messier

The French complain of everything, and always.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The French are very individualistic.

— Eric Rohmer

There is a certain dignity to being French.

— Brigitte Bardot

Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens.

— Francois Hollande

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

— Edward Hopper

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

— Gordon Ramsay

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

— Simon Baker

✗Opposing Perspectives

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

— Marquis de Lafayette