French Revolution

Famous quotes containing the words french revolution, french and/or revolution:

    “The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “Vivian Rutledge: So you do get up. I was beginning to think perhaps you worked in bed like Marcel Proust.
    Philip Marlowe: Who’s he?
    Vivian: You wouldn’t know him. French writer.
    Marlowe: Come into my boudoir.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)

    “Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)