Mandarins Quotes

#1. I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

Pablo Picasso

#2. I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#3. At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to mandarins. Unless American comedians can make the Home Office fit for purpose, the taxpayer won't be laughing.

Chris Huhne

#4. For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.

E. M. Forster

#5. It shouldn't matter WHO you love; it should matter HOW you love. As long as you love someone with all your heart, than that's all that truly matters.

Nishan

#6. Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

Marquis De Sade

#8. We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#9. All my good movies, nobody sees.

Chris Evans

#10. Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

John Donne