Famous quotes containing the words french and/or king:
“French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“Would yoube good enough Alice panted out, after running a little further, to stop a minutejust to getones breath again?
Im good enough, the King said, only Im not strong enough. You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)