Bao Dai Quotes

#1. An artist is one of two things: he is either a high priest, or a more or less smart entertainer. - GIUSEPPE MAZZINI

Leo Tolstoy

#2. It interests me tremendously to make copies ... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

Vincent Van Gogh

#3. I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

Bao Dai

#4. If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Bao Dai

#5. If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.

Robin Williams

#6. The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

Bao Dai

#7. In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

Bao Dai

#8. There are familiar faces on these trains, people I see every week, going to and fro. I recognize them and they probably recognize me.

Paula Hawkins

#9. Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy
in fact, the opposite.

Jean Vanier

#10. Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

Bao Dai

#11. I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.

Cathy Guisewite

#12. God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.

Mother Teresa

#13. Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Igor Stravinsky

#14. As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

Bao Dai

#15. I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Bao Dai

#16. I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.

Ernie Holmes