Famous quotes containing the words french and/or officer:
“Have ye got the parcel there for Mrs White?
Ye havent! Oh, begorra!
Say its comin down tomorra
And it might now, Michael, so it might!”
—William Percy French (18541920)
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
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