Marquis

Famous quotes containing the word marquis:

“The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)

“One promises much, to avoid giving little.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)

“now and then
there is a person born
who is so unlucky
that he runs into accidents
which started out to happen
to somebody else”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)