Top 17 Adrienne Monnier Quotes
#1. The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.
Adrienne Monnier
#2. No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
Hans Vestberg
#3. Caroline scrambled off his lap, gazing down at the Persian rug. "Is this thing Scotchgarded?
Cecilia London
#4. One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.
Adrienne Monnier
#5. First in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.
Roy Wilkins
#6. Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.
Adrienne Monnier
#7. German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
Adrienne Monnier
#8. For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.
Adrienne Monnier
#10. Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
Adrienne Monnier
#11. It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
Adrienne Monnier
#12. Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
Adrienne Monnier
#13. Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
Adrienne Monnier
#14. You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.
Cornelius Van Til
#15. Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.
Adele Griffin
#16. Do not listen to the mad ramblings of a broken man. He means none of what he says and only half of what he doesn't.
Marie Hall
#17. I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
Adrienne Monnier
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