Famous quotes containing the words standard, modern and/or french:
“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content,
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)