Furtive Shame Leads to French

"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French."

The Luck of the Bodkins - P. G. Wodehouse

Fabulous way to start a book, insult an entire nation, particularly when that nation is one which is fun to put down. It's like a french man starting a book by discussing the culinary ability of the English. But, when you continue to look at the sentence, you realize that in truth, he's attacking his own countrymen!