French revolution Quote by Walter Isaacson

“{ Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier 's execution during the French Revolution } Only a moment to cut off that head and…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

“He firmly believed that the French aristocrat was the most bitter enemy of France; he would have wished to see every one of them…

— Emmuska Orczy

“What passes for wine among us, is not the juice of the grape. It is an adulterous mixture, brewed up of nauseous ingredients, by…

— Tobias Smollett

“Louis XVI--Louis Capet--was led to the guillotine in the Place de la Revolution by Santerre, the brewer. Louis stepped firmly and resolutely up the…

— Bernardine Kielty

“The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.”

— Mike Jay

“The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy…

— Victor Hugo

“My great-grandfather, Dad often told us, saved his best wines for special occasions. He was killed when the Nazis invaded Paris. The Nazis ended…

— Harlan Coben

“The wine had the effect of making him discourse on racing, a subject regarding which I was myself unfortunately too ignorant to dispose as…

— Anthony Powell

“During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in…

— Baroness Orczy

“His disdain for the contagious fad of blind and comparative tastings of unrelated wines will surely rub some furs the wrong way, as will…

— Kermit Lynch

“It is not often," said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, "that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine,…

— Charles Dickens

“When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the…

— Anne Fadiman