Famous quotes containing the word marquis:
“One promises much, to avoid giving little.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)
“Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)
“The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)