Duc de Morny

Famous quotes containing the words duc de, duc and/or morny:

    “As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)