Perigord Quotes

#1. You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

Rebecca Wells

#2. We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put money in thy purse.

James Joyce

#4. The greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

Robin Hobb

#5. Speech is the faculty by which men conceal their thoughts.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

#6. A fickle lover, sleep takes us as it will, when it wants, and how. Sensing her desperate need, however, it draws Corrie deeply into its embrace, somewhere between her tears and terror.

Kimberly Morgan

#7. It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

Elizabeth Lesser

#8. Non-intervention is a metaphysical idea, indistinguishable in practice from intervention.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

#9. I'm a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you what you should believe. You know, you have to believe what I believe, and I don't believe that.

Sinead O'Connor

#10. - We're winning!

- Who is 'we', mon Prince?

- Not a word! I will tell you tomorrow.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

#11. For three days, Shandy Gamble had been lying on his back in the Perigord House awaiting the stranger in the black mustache. Nichols, his name was, and if they were ever going to start cattle buying they had better be moving. The season was already late.

Louis L'Amour

#12. To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

#13. There are no principles, only events.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

#14. A diplomat who says "yes" means "maybe", a diplomat who says "maybe" means "no", and a diplomat who says "no" is no diplomat.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

#15. Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty.

Jose Marti

#16. Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Tom Hodgkinson

#17. But I am like the grass, I can not love you.

Ezra Pound

#18. You can do anything you like with bayonets, except sit on them.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

#19. They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord