Famous quotes containing the words french, open, mixed and/or doubles:
“The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run down by much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Before I am lost,
hell must open like a red rose
for the dead to pass.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)