Famous quotes containing the words charles de and/or charles:
“For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora’s box. “What! all!” said the Prince. “Yes, all.” “No,” said the Prince; “curiosity must have been without.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)