Quotes About Hoi

#1. What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

Russell Lynes

#2. If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

John Dryden

#3. Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

Julie Burchill

#4. I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive.

Jack Kelly

#5. Anapana means breath and sati means mindfulness. Tang Hoi translated it as "Guarding the Mind." The Anapanasati Sutra, that is, is the sutra on using one's breath to maintain mindfulness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#6. I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi, never "the hoi polloi," because hoi meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant
indeed something only hoi polloi would say.

Anne Fadiman

#7. Hoi, hoi u embleer hrair! M'saion ule' hraka vair!

Richard Adams

#8. There was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose around her ankles.

Jen Frederick

#9. Some people were born just so they could be buried.

Donald Ray Pollock

#10. We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

Anthony Eden

#11. [George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

Clarence Darrow

#12. Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

Richelle Mead

#13. Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

Christian Dior