Astonishing Quote by William Edgar

“Among the Huguenots he learned to be gentle and courteous; to bear himself among his elders respectfully, but without fear or shyness; to consider…

— G. A. HENTY

“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Steeply’s face had assumed the openly twisted sneering expression which he knew well Québecers found repellent on Americans. ‘But you assume it’s always choice,…

— David Foster Wallace

“and there the stories Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.”

— George Gordon Byron

“This was the Evangelical Revival that now began to take hold on the propertied class, who, frightened by what was happening in France, were…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Her manifold ills were summed up in the King. Since the Valois, she had had no monarch so worthless. He did not want understanding,…

— Francis Parkman

“And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts…

— Albert Camus

“The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness; and prudence,…

— Honore de Balzac

“To the French, [le plaisir] is a part of the general fearless and joyful contact with life. ”

— Edith Wharton

He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not…

— Alfred the Great

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as…

— Anonymous

“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world…

— Albert Camus