Goncourt/career

Famous quotes containing the words goncourt and/or career:

    The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
    —Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)

    Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
    Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)