1767 Quotes

#1. First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, 'Let them eat cake.' Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767---a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria....

Kris Waldherr

#2. What the Ambassador was witnessing - in idea, if not yet in fact - was the transfer of power from its arbitrary exercise by nobles and monarchs to power stationed in a constitution and in representation of the people. The period of the transfer, coinciding with his own career, from 1767 to 1797,

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. In the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence ...

Vincent De Paul

#4. History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.

Breyten Breytenbach

#5. Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ...

Hallie Burnett

#6. I wish I'd a knowed more people. I would of loved 'em all. If I'd a knowed more, I would a loved more

Toni Morrison

#7. Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

Elliot Ackerman

#8. I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.

Bell Hooks

#9. I stayed awake and kept watch. Plus you look all cute and nonlethal when you sleep.

Amy Tintera