Famous quotes containing the words french and/or literary:
“Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
languid spleen,
An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a
not-too-French French bean!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“In general I do not draw well with literary mennot that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)