Comtesse Quotes

#1. Sport, Madame la Comtesse, sport," asserted Lord Antony, with his jovial, loud and pleasant voice; "we are a nation of sportsmen, you know, and just now it is the fashion to pull the hare from between the teeth of the hound." "Ah,

Emmuska Orczy

#2. Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#3. Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed.

Comtesse De Segur

#4. Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is

Larry Wall

#5. If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#6. Ironically, if you look at Dianne Feinstein's profile and you look at my profile, I'm the 99 percent. Dianne Feinstein's the one percent. She appeals to one percent.

Elizabeth Emken

#7. Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#8. Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Camille Desmoulins

#9. Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.

Tom Ford

#10. Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES!

Carrie White

#12. In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

Paul Dano

#13. How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#14. Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#15. Then she did what any girl would do: she Googled him.

Jessica Park

#16. Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

Gloria Steinem

#17. A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

Pablo Picasso

#18. I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

Colson Whitehead

#19. In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#20. I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

P.G. Wodehouse

#21. I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

George W. Bush

#22. Do not sanction an absurdity.

Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

#23. It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich