Saint Francis Xavier

Famous quotes containing the words saint, francis and/or xavier:

    “A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement—in a word, with more renunciation than you care for—and so you flee the contagion.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “Charlie don’t surf!”
    —John Milius, U.S. screenwriter, Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939)

    “If you’re so helpless you can’t find the water you’ve no business in it.”
    —Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Joanne Xavier (Fay Wray)