Famous quotes containing the words jean baptiste, baptiste and/or gay:
“There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.”
—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)
“Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)