Monseigneur Quotes

#1. I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

Alexandre Dumas

#2. Then you do not believe in progress?" "Change is not always progress, Monseigneur.

Willa Cather

#3. I shall do nothing to discourage my patient, Monseigneur, any more than I shall bleed him, as many good people urge me to do. The mind, too, has a kind of blood; in common speech we call it hope.

Willa Cather

#4. To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

Victor Hugo

#5. CHAPTER V - MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG

Victor Hugo

#6. There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.

Victor Hugo

#7. Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave respect for darkness.

Victor Hugo

#8. Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead!"
You display an unseemly joy," he remarked. "I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.

Georgette Heyer

#9. Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.

Victor Hugo

#10. VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A

Charles Dickens

#11. Keeping all things in their places. Everybody was dressed for a Fancy Ball that was never to leave off. From the Palace of the Tuileries, through Monseigneur and the whole Court, through the Chambers, the Tribunals of Justice, and all society (except the scarecrows),

Charles Dickens

#12. He, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold?" "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed

Victor Hugo

#13. It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Gilbert Parker

#14. Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head

Charles Dickens

#15. And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out!

Charles Dickens

#16. But, the comfort was, that all the company at the grand hotel of Monseigneur were perfectly dressed. If the Day of Judgment had only been ascertained to be a dress day, everybody there would have been eternally correct.

Charles Dickens

#17. IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country

Charles Dickens

#18. In Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture

Charles Dickens

#19. You have suspicions, nevertheless?" "Yes, monseigneur; but these suspicions appeared to be disagreeable to Monsieur the Commissary, and I no longer have them.

Alexandre Dumas

#20. A story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits, for example, with a fun scene ... Before writing a scene of pure despair, we must go through scenes of hope. And indeed, when I write, all of this amuses me very much.

Ryukishi07

#21. I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.

Anna D. Shapiro

#22. My religion is Get Over It.

Nora Ephron

#23. It is hidden but always present.

Laozi

#24. If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

Will Rogers

#25. I hate politicians. I hate politics. But if I start to go into politics, I think I believe that I can serve more, I can help more people.

Manny Pacquiao

#26. I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

David O. Russell

#27. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Maya Angelou

#28. Jesus is taking an ax to our pride when He tells us the truth about our emptiness apart from Him.

Bill Mills