French Army Quotes:

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

source: "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.

topic: Funny Inspirational, Business, Mistake, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Martial Arts Inspirational

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

- Regis Philbin

topic: War, Coffee, Army, French Army, Sipping

The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor.

- Dwayne Johnson

topic: Strong, Army, Wwe, French Army, Body Odor

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Leadership, Army, Society, Wands, French Army

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France

- Ahmed Ben Bella

source: "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

topic: Fighting, Army, Organization, Algeria, French Army

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

- Roy Blunt

topic: Stupid, Army, Ebay, French Army

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.339, Broadview Press

topic: Wall, Army, Hands, French Army, Fainting

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.392, e-artnow

topic: Army, Italian, Might, French Army

The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

- Christian Carion

topic: Cat, Character, Army, French Army, Harsh Reality

It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939...from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat.

- Maurice Cowling

source: "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 144), 1990.

topic: War, Army, Government, French Army, British Government