Born French Citizen

Famous quotes containing the words born, french and/or citizen:

    States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

    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)

    Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
    Max Frisch (1911–1991)