“Like a Frenchman, far from home, catching a whiff of Gauloise.”
“No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.”
“To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman”
“... if the Englishman does not disclose his soul, he readily opens his home. A Frenchman may reveal his life secrets after half an hour's aquaintance. But he does not ask one home.”
“Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods.”
“Go far from home and yo will have a long way back.”