Top 100 Chevalier Quotes
#1. A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
#2. And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.
Dorothy Dunnett
#3. 1780, as Thomas-Alexandre turned eighteen, the king issued a new law prohibiting people of color from using the titles Sieur or Dame ("Sir" or "Madame"). Saint-Georges remained a chevalier - and Thomas-Alexandre was a count - but neither could use "Sir" before his name without risking arrest.
Tom Reiss
#4. I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
Shirley Eaton
#5. Dr. Grime carries a Tide stain pen. He does not use his own spit. Art conservators do. "We make cotton swabs on bamboo sticks and moisten the swab in our mouths," says Andrea Chevalier, senior paintings conservator with the Intermuseum Conservation Association.
Mary Roach
#6. [On Bonnie Prince Charlie:] Oh, Charlie is my darling, / My darling, my darling; / Oh, Charlie is my darling, / The young Chevalier.
Carolina Nairne
#7. Like Tracy Chevalier, Burton is skilled at evoking place . . . Wonderful' Guardian
Jessie Burton
#8. So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
Tracy Chevalier
#9. An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
Maurice Chevalier
#10. Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.
Tracy Chevalier
#11. I knew that he would go out to the tavern, returning with eyes like glittering spoons.
Tracy Chevalier
#13. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
#14. Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
Tracy Chevalier
#15. He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again.
Tracy Chevalier
#16. My mommy told me
If I was goody
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly
My sister told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won't buy me
That rubber dolly
Now I am dead
And in my grave
And there beside me
A rubber dolly
Tracy Chevalier
#17. At first I could not meet his eyes. When I did it was like sitting close to a fire that suddenly blazes up.
Tracy Chevalier
#18. I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.
Tracy Chevalier
#19. Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.
Tracy Chevalier
#20. I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal and not getting quite enough to eat.
Tracy Chevalier
#21. It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation.
Tracy Chevalier
#22. It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
Tracy Chevalier
#23. The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
Maurice Chevalier
#24. Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier
#25. Although we kept the door ajar so that we could hear, we could not see beyond the gentlemen standing in front of the door in the crowded room. I felt trapped behind a wall of men that separated me from the main event.
Tracy Chevalier
#26. I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.
Tracy Chevalier
#27. I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.
Tracy Chevalier
#28. Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.
Tracy Chevalier
#29. If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.
Tracy Chevalier
#30. You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.
Tracy Chevalier
#31. The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
Tracy Chevalier
#32. We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.
Tracy Chevalier
#33. We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.
Tracy Chevalier
#34. Perhaps thee will best understand what Abigail is like if I tell thee that when she quilts she prefers to stitch in the ditch, hiding her poor stitches in the seams between the blocks.
Tracy Chevalier
#35. But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.
Tracy Chevalier
#36. Lick your lips, Griet."
I licked my lips.
"Leave your mouth open."
I was so surprised by this request that my mouth remained open of its own will. I blinked back tears. Virtuous women did not open their mouths in paintings.
Tracy Chevalier
#37. That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.
Tracy Chevalier
#38. I felt as if my parents had pushed me into the street, that a deal had been made and I was being passed into the hands of a man. At least he is a good man, I thought, even if his hands are not as clean as they could be.
Tracy Chevalier
#41. She took the bottom of her shirt and wiped the handles of the blades. He made a face.
"What was that for?"
"Fingerprints. I'm not wastin' time explainin' to cops why six inches of steel went into a dumbass.
Randall Kenneth Drake
#43. Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.
Maurice Chevalier
#44. We do not need such things to help us to see God," I countered. "We have His Word, and that is
enough.
Tracy Chevalier
#45. It's simple, Miss Philpot. This is one of God's early models, and He decided to give the subsequent ones smaller eyes." I raised my eyebrows. "Do you mean God rejected it?" "I mean God wanted a better version - the crocodile we know now - and replaced it.
Tracy Chevalier
#46. I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly.
Tracy Chevalier
#47. It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
Tracy Chevalier
#48. I heard voices outside our front door - a woman's, bright as polished brass, and a man's, low and dark like the wood of the table I was working on. They were the kind of voices we heard rarely in our house. I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur.
Tracy Chevalier
#50. My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.
Tracy Chevalier
#51. A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.
Maurice Chevalier
#53. Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
Tracy Chevalier
#54. He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I.
Tracy Chevalier
#55. Life itself was far messier and didn't end so tidily with the heroine making the right match.
Tracy Chevalier
#56. He spoke her name as though he held cinnamon in his mouth.
Tracy Chevalier
#57. I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
Tracy Chevalier
#58. Have noticed that people do not change which feature they lead with, any more than they change in character.
Tracy Chevalier
#59. of all the cities he had been to - Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City - San Francisco was by far the worst.
Tracy Chevalier
#60. When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.
Maurice Chevalier
#61. What made him most attractive was that he was attracted to her. Another's interest can be a powerful stimulant. She could feel his eyes on her as an almost physical pressure.
Tracy Chevalier
#63. He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.
Tracy Chevalier
#64. I have a bed and enough to eat and kind people about me. God is still with me. For these things I am grateful and have no reason to complain
Tracy Chevalier
#66. I slowed my pace. Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before me like a landscape of flat land where, a long way off, the sea is visible but can never be reached.
Tracy Chevalier
#67. People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble.
Tracy Chevalier
#68. I could not think of anything but his fingers on my neck, his thumb on my lips.
Tracy Chevalier
#69. God placed the fossils there when He created the rocks, to test our faith, he responded at last. As He is clearly testing yours Miss Philpot.
It is my faith in you that is being tested, I thought.
Tracy Chevalier
#70. I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.
G.N. Chevalier
#72. Spent much of my life in Lyme with my eyes fixed to the ground in search of fossils. Such hunting can limit a person's perspective.
Tracy Chevalier
#73. One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.
Maurice Chevalier
#74. Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.
Tracy Chevalier
#75. There is no need to fear," he said, "for you are here with me.
Tracy Chevalier
#76. I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,' she said. 'And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse - to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.
Tracy Chevalier
#78. I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.
Tracy Chevalier
#80. For myself, it took only the early discovery of a golden ammonite, glittering on the beach between Lyme and Charmouth, for me to succumb to the seductive thrill of finding unexpected treasure.
Tracy Chevalier
#81. It is because gold is rare that gilding has been invented, which, without having its solidity, has all its brilliancy. Thus, to replace the kindness we lack, we have devised politeness which has all its appearance.
Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis
#82. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things - tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids - are they not celebrating God's creation as well?" I
Tracy Chevalier
#83. It seemed to me that the baker had an honest response to the painting. Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked at paintings, with his honeyed words and studied expressions. He was too aware of having an audience to perform for, whereas the baker merely said what he thought.
Tracy Chevalier
#84. My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.
Tracy Chevalier
#86. I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone's life so and did not easily carry its weight, as a man might have done.
Tracy Chevalier
#87. It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
Maurice Chevalier
#88. While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She was suffering inside.
Tracy Chevalier
#90. As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.
Tracy Chevalier
#92. It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.
Tracy Chevalier
#93. Had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon.
Tracy Chevalier
#94. Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.
Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis
#95. Married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable. I patted my basket. I have my own fossils,
Tracy Chevalier
#96. Everybody asks the same questions
but they don't know that they ask the same questions.
Tracy Chevalier
#97. If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier
#99. As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.
Tracy Chevalier
#100. He could not tell all of the California pines apart, the gray pine from the coulter, the bushop from the knobcone and the Monterey.
Tracy Chevalier
