The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Edmond de Goncourt (May 26 1822 – July 16 1896) born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt was a French writer literary critic art critic book publiEdmond de Goncourtr and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.