Babette Quotes

#1. Christ, what an asshole! Babette said.

Herman Koch

#2. Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")

Cornell Woolrich

#3. This is the whole point of Babette.

Don DeLillo

#4. Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?"
Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.

Karen Blixen

#5. I love 'Babette's Feast' because of the message in it - an artist will never be poor, and you can melt the coldest heart with love and passion.

Colin Salmon

#6. This is the point of Babette.

Don DeLillo

#7. Why did you tell me about Babette?! (Gabrielle)
Leash her until I have coffee or I may have to kill her. (Rae)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. At breakfast, Babette read all our horoscopes aloud, using her storytelling voice. I tried not to listen when she got to mine, although I think I wanted to listen, I think I sought some clues.

Don DeLillo

#9. Such language," Babette says. "Why don't you just take a dump in my ears!

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

Babette March

#11. Trouble was, everyone always made talking out a problem sound like it was so simple and solved everything, but actually doing it, and securing the desired outcome without screwing up, seemed about as easy as rowing upriver with a teaspoon.

Babette James

#12. I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

Mary Stewart

#13. Kay was only half skinny-dipping, but she fervently wished she'd worn something a bit more substantial than a baseball cap and the bottom half of the quintessential teeny-weenie yellow polka-dot bikini.

Babette James

#14. How to sustain the miracle
Of being, that like a muted bell,
Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
Quivers, intense and still?

Babette Deutsch

#15. The worst thing was that her school-friends began to copy her. They thought it was dead cool to be a little monster like Lucretia Crum!

Babette Cole

#16. I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

Sherman Alexie

#17. There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

Babette Deutsch

#18. What shall we do at our tea party?" Daddy asked. "Do we sing and read poems like you do at Grammy's?"

"We can just talk. I can tell you about what's been happening at school. You can tell me about your work or what you did when you were a little boy. You know. Things that matter.

Babette Donaldson

#19. I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

Liza Minnelli

#20. Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

Babette Deutsch

#21. The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

Babette Deutsch

#22. History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it.

Babette Deutsch

#23. I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Babette March

#24. Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.

Emily Henry

#25. Learn to use the knowledge of the past and you will look like a genius, even when you are really just a clever borrower.

Robert Greene

#26. I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

Illeana Douglas

#27. The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

Babette Deutsch

#28. O I never thought that joys would run away from boys,
Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys;
But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys

John Clare

#29. Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

Babette Deutsch

#30. The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.

Walt Disney

#31. Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Babette Deutsch

#32. I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Babette March