Famous quotes containing the words finnish, nationality, law and/or provincial:
“A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“The great King of kings
Hath in the table of his law commanded
That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then
Spurn at his edict, and fulfill a man’s?
Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hand
To hurl upon their heads that break his law.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)