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Pierre-Jean de Béranger
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“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cinquante Ans, C. L. Betts' translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 13.
“Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath culled, I wear On brows bald since my thirty years. Ye veils that deck my loved one rare, Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh. Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! And I, so plain a man am I!”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Qu'elle est jolie, translated by C. L. Betts; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 57.
“In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray; Rosy and round as an apple is he, Content with the present whate'er it may be, While from care and from cash he is equally free, And merry both night and day! "Ma foi! I laugh at the world." says he, "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!" What a gay little man in gray.”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Little Man all in Gray, translation by Amelia B. Edwards; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 133.
“Nos amis, les ennemis.”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L'Opinion de ces Demoiselles, "Nos amis, nos ennemis" [Our friends, our enemies]. Expression used by the French during the truce after the capture of Sebastopol, referring to the Russians. Recorded in the London Times o…
“Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids, Goddam! j'aime les anglais.”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 222.
“Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L'Adieu; free translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 579.
“Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira Que le peuple, qui l'enterra, pleura.”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Le Roi Yvetot; rendering of Thackeray, King of Brentford; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 683.
“Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show, Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow.”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Le Roi d'Yvetot. Translation by Thackeray, The King of Brentford; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 725.
“Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Les Gaulois et François, C. L. Bett's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 842.