Standard Modern French

Famous quotes containing the words standard, modern and/or french:

    Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.
    Christina Stead (1902–1983)