Little Chinese Seamstress Book Quotes

#1. Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

David Chipperfield

#2. I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Jennifer Damiano

#3. If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

Tacitus

#4. The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.

Moliere

#5. I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

William Eggleston

#6. She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, which was not life at all
(But that she had not lived enough to know)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#7. We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?

Niall Horan

#8. Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

Vincent Massey

#9. People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

Mao Zedong

#10. Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.

Paul Cezanne

#11. The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

Umberto Eco

#12. What is his name?

Jane Austen

#13. What weeping adds quietly to your life. Happiness can't even have idea of it.

Lovely Goyal

#14. I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.

Thomas Middleditch

#15. What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

Francois Mauriac