Famous quotes containing the words french and/or literary:
“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“The literary “fellow travelers” of the Revolution.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)