Famous quotes containing the words older and/or russian:
“She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)