François Andrieux

François Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux (6 May 1759 – 10 May 1833) was a French man of letters and playwright.

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 * Ce sont là jeux de prince: On respecte un moulin: on vole une province.
 * Le Meunier de Sans-Souci. (Ed. 1818, Vol. III., p. 208).
 * Translation: Princes' sports are these: A mill they'll spare: a province they will seize.
 * Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 24.


 * Ces malheureux rois, Dont on dit tant de mal, ont du bon quelquefois.
 * Le Meunier de Sans-Souci. (Ed. 1818, Vol. III., p. 205).
 * Translation: These wretched kings, Of whom all men speak ill, have oft some good in them.
 * Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 26.


 * Il en coûte bien cher pour mourir à Paris.
 * Les Etourdis, Act I., Sc. II. — (Daiglemoni).
 * To die in Paris costs a pretty penny.
 * Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 56.


 * Quand il veut, le diable fait tout bien.
 * Le Doyen de Badajoz. (Ed. 1818, Vol. III., p. 266).
 * When he wills, the devil does all things well.
 * Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 185.


 * Si nous n’avions pas des juges à Berlin.
 * Le Meunier de Sans Souci. (Ed. 1818. Vol. III., p. 208).
 * Suppose we had no judges in Berlin.
 * Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 210.