Famous quotes containing the words iii, france, french and/or reign:
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (18081873)
“Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country? asked Marco.
Why not? I like it anywhere. Its all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make money by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“We may be witnesses to a Biblical prophecy come true. And there shall be destruction and darkness come upon creation, and the beasts shall reign over the earth.”
—Ted Sherdeman. Gordon Douglas. Dr. Medford (Edmund Gwenn)