Whole world Quote by Patrick O'Brian

“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense…

— John Adams

“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He…

— Victor Hugo

“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and preen as…

— Lynn Messina

“But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do…

— Frederick the Great

“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?”

— Peter Murphy

“If the empire were to collapse, I should personally feel extremely sad. I absolutely do not believe that the personal rule of Napoleon III…

— Franz Liszt

“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the…

— Josephin Peladan

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago…

— William Arthur Sirmon

“Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?”

— Pepin the Short

“So many worthless people relying on French protection are enabled to sin against me with impunity, and nobody now feels that he has any…

— Virginia Cowles

“Servitude, like a destructive volcano, desiccates, burns, engulfs everything it surrounds: liberty, on the contrary, always brings in its wake happiness, abundance, and the…

— Tom Reiss

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring up in…

— Henry Fielding