revolutions are not made with rose-water
- revolutions are not made with rose-water
With reference to 1789 CHAMFORT in Marmontel Works (1818) II. 294 voulez-vous qu’on vous fasse des révolutions a l’eau rose, do you require that revolutions be made with rose-water?
1819 BYRON Letter 3 Oct. (1976) VI. 226 On either side harm must be done before good can accrue—revolutions are not to be made with rose water.
1894 J. LUBBOCK Use of Life xi. It is sometimes said that Revolutions are not made with rose-water. Greater changes, however, have been made in the constitution of the world by argument than by arms.
a 1931 T. M. HEALY letter in F. Callanan T. M. Healy (1996) The Sinns won in three years what we did not win in forty. You cannot make revolutions with rosewater, or omelettes without breaking eggs.
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