Famous quotes containing the words iii, france, french and/or reign:
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
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