French Ambassador

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or ambassador:

“Vivian Rutledge: So you do get up. I was beginning to think perhaps you worked in bed like Marcel Proust.
Philip Marlowe: Who’s he?
Vivian: You wouldn’t know him. French writer.
Marlowe: Come into my boudoir.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)

“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)