French World War

Famous quotes containing the words french, world and/or war:

    ... the French know that you must not succeed you must rise from the ashes and how could you rise from the ashes if there were no ashes, but the Germans never think of ashes and so when there are ashes there is no rising, not at all and every day and in every way this is clearer and clearer.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    ... the spiritual world is here and now and indisputably and preeminently real. It is the material world that is the realm of shadows.
    Amelia E. Barr, U.S. novelist. All the Days of My Life, ch. 1 (1913)

    The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don’t go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It’s always so.
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)