Marthe Quotes

#1. People don't love each other at our age, Marthe - they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

Albert Camus

#2. I do admire efficiency,' said Marthe. 'But how tedious it can be in excess.

Dorothy Dunnett

#3. The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

Marthe Bibesco

#4. History ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

Marthe Bibesco

#5. Don't go wishing for what you know nothing about.

Marthe Jocelyn

#6. This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.

Barack Obama

#8. One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ...

Marthe Bibesco

#9. Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle ... we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

Gay Hendricks

#10. Words express only the feelings we know already.

Marthe Bibesco

#11. He had a real mother, and a stepfather named Bart who Martin called Fart but only with his brothers and James

Marthe Jocelyn

#12. That sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

Marthe Bibesco

#13. Love always betrays its intentions.

Marthe Bibesco

#14. Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!

Marthe Bibesco

#15. Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

Agatha Christie

#16. Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

Martin Amis

#17. Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

Jimmy Hoffa

#18. Collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

Marthe Bibesco

#19. The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

Marthe Bibesco

#20. The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.

Marthe Bibesco

#21. There are no nationalities in heaven.

Marthe Bibesco

#22. Marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

Marthe Bibesco

#23. I depended on you....You're older, you're supposed to be my...my archive. That's what sisters do, remember for each other.

Marthe Jocelyn

#24. For years the strangers among us had passed sullenly in the hallways; now we looked, we nodded, we smiled.

Jerry Spinelli

#25. Those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

Marthe Bibesco

#26. The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Booker T. Washington

#27. He's the meanest one. We call him..Byrd the Turd

Marthe Jocelyn

#28. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin