Famous quotes containing the words xavier, books and/or french:
“If you’re so helpless you can’t find the water you’ve no business in it.”
—Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Joanne Xavier (Fay Wray)
“Good books do not make people wiser or happier—only more conscious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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 (1713–1768)