Famous quotes containing the words xavier, books and/or french:
“I refuse to say another word to you. You’re just contemptible and impudent enough to publish it.”
—Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Joanne Xavier (Fay Wray)
“For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
“The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)