Quotes About Corsican

Where is he?" "Five miles due west of Ajaccio." The don smiled. "Or thereabouts." "Alive one hour," said Keller, quoting a Corsican proverb, "dead the next.

A forced interlude with a Corsican bandit of great charm had ended with him vowing to give up his errant life of villainy and take holy orders. He still sent me regular missives from the monastery where he devoted himself to the making of pungent cheeses.)

It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.

We had a Corsican wine that had great authority and a low price. It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message. A Moveable Feast

We had forgotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican.

Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'

Napoléon Bonaparte was an upstart Corsican soldier of fortune whose ambition-fueled ascension to the throne of France threatened to undermine every foundation of civilization and the social order.