Famous quotes containing the words standard, modern and/or french:
“A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)
“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crimenamely, repressive justice.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“If you should put a knife into a French girls learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee ...”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (18261903)