Top 28 Chamisso Quotes
#1. It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
#2. My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#3. I've been such an outsider my whole life.
Thom Mayne
#4. I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#6. A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#7. That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.
Gilbert Parker
#8. It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.
Nicolas Cage
#11. My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#12. In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#13. I take a deep breath. It smells suspiciously like bullshit in here.
Courtney Summers
#15. Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation ... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
Lionel Murphy
#16. On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#17. I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
William Shakespeare
#18. Race was an issue because in every assignment I have had in Special Operations, racism has been as much a part of the social bond as football and fast cars. I never cared for either of them either, but this was special.
Stan Goff
#19. All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#20. It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me ... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
Epictetus
#22. After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#23. What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#24. When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#25. The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#26. This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#27. I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#28. I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
