Rica quotes
A character in Persian Letters by Montesquieu
5 quotes spoken by or about Rica, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
Persian Letters
Montesquieu
About Montesquieu
The houses are so high that you would swear they must be inhabited by astrologers.
If he has a costly war on hand, and is short of money, he simply suggests to his subjects that a piece of paper is coin of the realm, and they are straightway convinced of it.
Sometimes he makes the king believe that three are no more than one; that the bread which he eats is not bread; the wine which he drinks not wine.
if any one chanced to inform the company that I was a Persian I soon overheard a murmur all round me, "Oh! ah! A Persian, is he? Most amazing! However can anybody be a Persian?"
When I arrived, they stared at me as if I had dropped from the sky: old and young, men, women, and children, were all agog to see me.
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