Famous quotes containing the words xavier, books and/or french:
“If youre so helpless you cant find the water youve no business in it.”
—Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Joanne Xavier (Fay Wray)
“New eyes each year
Find old books here,
And new books, too,
Old eyes renew....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“The French are certainly misunderstood:Mbut whether the fault is theirs, in not sufficiently explaining themselves; or speaking with that exact limitation and precision which one would expect ... or whether the fault may not be altogether on our side ... I shall not decide.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)