Top 18 Froissart Quotes
#1. The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.
Jerome K. Jerome
#2. How much the fiction of Sir Walter Scott owes to Froissart, and to Philip de Comines after Froissart, those only can understand who have read both the old chronicles and the modern romances. It was one of the congenial labors of
William Cleaver Wilkinson
#4. Without him nothing was done, and through him everything was done, and the king trusted him more than any other.
Jean Froissart
#5. You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.
Sonia Sotomayor
#6. In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.
Nate Berkus
#7. Without knowing anything else about him, i already know he'd be worth the hurt.
K. Bromberg
#8. Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.
Bill O'Reilly
#9. I wanted to be ready.
I had thought I was ready.
I really believed I was ready.
That is, until the milk came.
Kathryn Michaels
#10. An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.
Djayawarman Alamprabu
#11. This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
Jean Froissart
#12. Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
Jean Froissart
#13. National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#14. I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
Ira Glass
#15. We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
Edith Stein
#17. Yes, I know how to conform, she replied, fearing that conformity would no longer be enough to save her.
Sharolyn G. Brown
#18. They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country.
[Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]
Jean Froissart
