Peer Gynt Quotes

#1. His wife, however, happened to be the only woman in his life who failed totally to arouse any passion in him whatsoever.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. On Christmas morning, Rebecca lost her moral virginity, her sense of humor - and her two best friends. But, other than that, it was a hell of a holiday.

Ellen Emerson White

#3. It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

Ronnie James Dio

#4. I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

Leo McKern

#5. Only to have a grief
equal to all these tears!
There's not a sob in my chest.
Dry hearted Peer Gynt
I pare away, no hero,
merely a cook.

Adrienne Rich

#6. Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

George Sand

#7. I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.

Mekhi Phifer

#8. This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

Nikki Haley

#9. Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance.

Osamu Dazai

#10. He could not bear to search for Christ again in stench and hollow eyes; for the Christ of pus and bleeding excrement, the Christ who could not be. In

William Peter Blatty

#11. Money isn't everything. If anything it's a poison - Brackenbelly.

Gareth Baker

#12. Never flash-evaporate a kitten.

Wetdryvac

#13. Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

George Bernard Shaw