Top 32 Monseigneur's Quotes
#1. He, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold?" "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed
Victor Hugo
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Then you do not believe in progress?" "Change is not always progress, Monseigneur.
Willa Cather
#5. I haven't been on the stage in a long time.
Erika Slezak
#6. 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
#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. 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
#10. There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.
Victor Hugo
#11. Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. CHAPTER V - MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG
Victor Hugo
#13. People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
Clare Balding
#14. Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth
Imran Khan
#15. 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
#16. I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.
Lauryn Hill
#17. 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
#18. West Ham have committed 13 fouls, but they weren't fouls, they were commitment
Ray Wilkins
#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. I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.
Leonard Cohen
#21. 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
#22. It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Gilbert Parker
#23. Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head
Charles Dickens
#24. Humanity might bless earth--if we work with and for creation, if we master our selfishness in service to all our neighbors, if we cultivate wildness as a kind of wealth.
Willis Jenkins
#25. 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
#26. Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.
Steven Seagal
#27. IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
Charles Dickens
#29. I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.
Alexandre Dumas
#30. In Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture
Charles Dickens
#31. Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing ... It is all rather rot.
Richard Van Der Riet Woolley
#32. Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
Warren Buffett