Top 100 Quotes About Edmond
#2. Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.
Edmond Rostand
#5. Always the answer - yes! Let me die so -
Under some rosy-golden sunset, saying
A good thing, for a good cause! By the sword,
The point of honor - by the hand of one
Worthy to be my foeman, let me fall -
Steel in my heart, and laughter on my lips!
Edmond Rostand
#6. Speak to me ... be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize! ... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water ... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
#8. A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving; 'tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
Edmond Rostand
#9. Edmond just lay there smoking and telling me he loved me without saying anything out loud and if there ever was a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about. The
Meg Rosoff
#11. Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
Edmond De Goncourt
#12. I warned you about those sexually graphic descriptions. Now you've alienated our only breakfast friend, a homophobic Republican on crack.
Edmond Manning
#14. Yes; but one gets out of prison," said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, "and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge
Alexandre Dumas
#15. I would rather see great dreams in small places, than small dreams in great places.
Robert Edmond Jones
#16. There should be a word for an attitude between snobbish and unconscious, describing someone who doesn't realize how strongly he holds his own opinions.
Edmond Manning
#17. She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.
Edmond De Goncourt
#18. [He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.
Edmond De Goncourt
#19. While master of myself, I'll not permit
The soothing beauty of a tear to roll
Along the crooked contours of this nose.
There's a sublimity in tears; and I
Would not debase them;
I would never turn
Something sublime to the ridiculous.
Edmond Rostand
#20. One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.
Edmond Jabes
#21. My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.
Edmond Rostand
#22. Breath, Perry. Let the air become you, and then leave you. Forgive each breath because although it abandons you, every single time, it is also brings you life. A man who cannot forgive the air has no chance of living. (Vin)
Edmond Manning
#23. ROXANE. One hundred men against one: you! - So, good bye! - We are the best of friends, are we not? CYRANO. Assuredly, we are!
Edmond Rostand
#24. The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
Edmond Rostand
#25. As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.
Edmond Jabes
#26. [David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with a White professor slapping an uppity feminist, at least the version I saw at San Francisco's ACT.
Ishmael Reed
#27. Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.
Robert Edmond Jones
#28. It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
Edmond Jabes
#29. My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own.
Edmond Rostand
#30. I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
Edmond About
#31. There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
Edmond H. Fischer
#32. The only thing necessary for the continuance of evil is for a good man to do nothing.
Edmond Burke
#33. It's good to be a bear and not take yourself so damn seriously.
Edmond Manning
#34. Well when I write my book, and tell the tale of my adventures
all these little stars that shake out of my cloak
I must save those to use for asterisks!
Edmond Rostand
#35. It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
Edmond H. Fischer
#36. Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!
Edmond Rostand
#37. The writer's voice, the honesty and candor that is present in that voice, is what must be written upon the page.
Edmond Rostand
#40. By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
Edmond Jabes
#42. But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
Edmond About
#43. Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
Edmond Jabes
#44. It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder.
"What's a shame?" Duncan asked.
"That I didn't capture her first."
Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.
Julie Garwood
#45. I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He questions the words, which question him. He accompanies the words, which accompany him. The initiative is shared, as if spontaneous.
Edmond Jabes
#46. Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.
Edmond Jabes
#47. Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this ... will without much labour be effected.
Edmond Halley
#48. I think jalapeno sounds like a bunch of letters piling into a beat-up old word to get tacos.
Edmond Manning
#49. If you want a great vacation, go to an all-inclusive resort"
If you want a great travel adventure, go anywhere else
Edmond Gagnon
#50. There are moments in history when men who are not necessarily fools or cowards behave as if they felt themselves conscientious executors named to administer some general heritage of cowardice and folly...
Edmond Taylor
#51. A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain ...
Edmond Rostand
#52. It's hard to categorize the half expressions, the ones which reside in between. But this morning, I'm calling Perry mad by sadwest.
Edmond Manning
#53. Perry does not love the cost of this adventure, but his investor brain is going to run the numbers. The brain always insists on being the last committee member to cave. The brain likes to make speeches that usually begin with a familiar opening:Ladies and gentlemen, I have been wronged.
Edmond Manning
#54. N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,
John Gielgud
#55. Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet, ...
The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak
Our selves unseen, unseeing!
Edmond Rostand
#56. If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Edmond De Goncourt
#57. I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!
Edmond Rostand
#58. I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
Edmond Rostand
#60. These tears need to be shed, wept into the earth where there is no hope of consolation. Sometimes a man has to cry alone.
Edmond Manning
#61. How wonderful it is being a sheep in the flock of God. Our shepherd is the one that created the grass that we need for pasture, He is the one that created the rivers and the waters, He is the one who holds everything in His hand and He is my Shepherd.
Edmond Sanganyado
#62. In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun ... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.
Edmond Halley
#63. This sight ... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
Edmond Halley
#64. It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
Edmond About
#65. All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me ... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is ... my white plume.
Edmond Rostand
#66. A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
Edmond Rostand
#67. A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Edmond De Goncourt
#68. Have you ever done anything so significantly outrageous, so beautiful and insane, that on days when your life feels dull, these shining moments leap out? Do you have an answer to the question 'Did I live? Did I touch the world?' (Vin)
Edmond Manning
#69. We will gather images and images of images up till the last, which is blank. This one we will agree on. (Reb Carasso)
Edmond Jabes
#71. Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
Edmond Jabes
#72. Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises.
Edmond Manning
#73. Wound me ... I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
Edmond Jabes
#74. God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
Edmond Jabes
#75. A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
Alexandre Dumas
#76. Silence is no weakness of language.
It is, on the contrary, its strength.
It is the weakness of words not to know this.
Edmond Jabes
#77. What's done is done. There is no need to speak with Edmond about his past.
C.S. Lewis
#79. When I finally got to sleep I found Edmond and told him everything that happened, and he stayed with me for hours and whether I was dreaming or just borderline schizophrenic I didn't know and didn't care either. At
Meg Rosoff
#80. Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond De Goncourt
#81. Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.
Edmond Jabes
#82. I love you, but I should poorly serve the work to which I devote myself anew at the side of one to whom it were less than the greatest thing in the world!
Edmond Rostand
#84. The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.
Edmond Taylor
#86. We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.
Edmond Jabes
#87. Some men want to believe their kingship will make them stronger, more invulnerable to life's sorrows so that hurts do not hurt, pain is laughable. They are surprised to discover the paradox of strength - only the truly vulnerable possess the ability to love powerfully.
Edmond Manning
#88. People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Edmond De Goncourt
#89. Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Edmond De Goncourt
#90. A great love carries within it a mourning for love.
Edmond Jabes
#91. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
Edmond Rostand
#92. I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!
Edmond Rostand
#93. The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope." ~Edmond Dantes
Alexandre Dumas
#94. There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond
Alexandre Dumas
#96. I know Edmond Locard's Principle, the central theory of modern forensic crime-scene investigation: something is always left behind.
C.J. Box
#97. To whom to speak when the other no longer is?
The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
Edmond Jabes
#99. Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
Edmond About
#100. I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.
Edmond Rostand
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