Duc de Morny

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

    “We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Vices may be said to await us along the course of our lives like hosts with whom we lodge successively on a journey; and I doubt that experience would cause us to avoid them, if we could travel the same road twice.”
    —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)