Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or pole:
“The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)
“I wouldnt take the Pope too seriously. Hes a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)
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