The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

I don’t hate him—he’s just a bore but that isn’t a capital offense. Usually.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire

The French, you know, have a good quality: They don’t tolerate arrogance. I’m the same way. I voted for him, but when I heard him tell an unemployed man asking for a job to “go across the street” and get one, and especially after the cover-up of the Benalla scandal – when Macron’s security officer beat up a protester – he was finished as far as I was concerned.

If something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.

[The French] are so uncompromising in their view of the world, which is why they are such a fantastically rich source of comedy. They are so relentless and so clear in their view of things, and they won't be shoved off that position by anything. What's also good is that, generally speaking, making jokes about the French appears to be something that nobody really minds. The French don't even care, they just go about their lives regardless.

There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.

He is a sensible man who does not grieve for what he has not, but enjoys what he has.

The French speakers always get their money's worth. Why? Because - unlike Flemish nationalists - they can put aside their ideological differences in order to defend their French-speaking interests.

Being feared and not hated go well together, and the prince can always do this if he does not touch the property or the women of his citizens and subjects.

He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.