French Military Victories

Famous quotes containing the words french, military and/or victories:

    “If you should put a knife into a French girl’s learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee ...”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    ““... Knowledge he shall unwind
    Through victories of the mind,
    Till, clambering at the cradle-side,
    He dreams himself his mother’s pride,
    All knowledge lost in trance
    Of sweeter ignorance.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)