Famous quotes containing the words jean baptiste, baptiste and/or gay:
“What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)
“Napoleon has not been conquered by men. He was greater than any of us. God punished him because he relied solely on his own intelligence until that incredible instrument was so strained that it broke.”
—Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (1763–1844)
“The well-cared-for woman is a parasite, and the woman who must work is a slave.”
—Cora Anderson, U.S. male impersonator. As quoted in Gay American History, part 3, by Jonathan Katz (1976)