Georges de Scudéry

Georges de Scudéry (22 August 1601 – 14 May 1667), the elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry, was a French novelist, dramatist and poet.

Quotes

• La victoire me suit, et tout suit la victoire.
  • Victory follows me, and all things follow victory.
  • L'Amour Tyrannique (1640), act 1, sc. 2 (Tiridate) — Tr. Harbottle and Dalbiac (1901)

• Et vaincre sans péril serait vaincre sans gloire.
  • Who without danger triumphs earns no fame.
  • Arminius (1642), act 1, sc. 3 (Germanicus) — Tr. Harbottle and Dalbiac (1901)

External links

• Thomas Benfield Harbottle; Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1901), pp. 3, 120