The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

P. J. O'Rourke

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it it a fine country.

Mark Twain

France is a country where the money falls apart but you can't tear the toilet paper.

Billy Wilder

QUOTATIONS ABOUT IRELAND

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

Hugh Leonard