Famous quotes containing the words marquis de and/or marquis:
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)
“every cloud
has its silver
lining but it is
sometimes a little
difficult to get it to
the mint”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)
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