Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

George Sanders

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

Jean-Claude Juncker

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Jennifer O'Neill

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

Jean Houston

The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

Jacqueline Carey

Genius requires an audience.

Jackson Browne

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Jack Ruby

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

Jack Vance

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

Christopher Hitchens

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Gary Zukav

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

Fulton J. Sheen

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

Fulton J. Sheen

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

Christina Hoff Sommers

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters as cranks.

Christina Ricci

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

George Santayana

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My genius is in my nostrils.

Frantz Fanon

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Franz Grillparzer

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

Christine Keeler

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christian Wiman

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

Christie Hefner

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

Faith Baldwin

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

George Steiner

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Plimpton

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

George R. R. Martin

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

George R. R. Martin

Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.

George Carlin

E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.

Fanny Burney

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

Ezra Pound

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.