Quotes About Madame De Pompadour

#1. I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!

Madame De Pompadour

#2. Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of living.

Nancy Mitford

#3. I don't know how a woman can have such a poor view of herself as to show off poor stitching.

Sandra Dallas

#4. But finally, once in an age, there is a blink. And in that blink, you can be. And in that blink, I can be.

Patrick Bryant

#5. Don't be afraid to put anything on paper because the best art has some element of danger to it and if you hold back then people will kind of be able to tell that you're trying to be something you're not.

Max Bemis

#6. I need her like I need air to breathe.

Laurelin Paige

#7. Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.

Madame De Pompadour

#8. Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#10. I will never shrink from speaking truth to power,

Elizabeth May

#11. [I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

Henry Whitehead

#12. Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it.

Madame De Pompadour

#13. And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

Gustave Flaubert

#14. Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it.

Madame De Pompadour

#15. A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction.

Madame De Pompadour

#16. Learning is knowledge and knowledge is freedom and power. He knew that. He had forgotten that, somehow. But he knew it once more.

Oliver Bowden

#17. Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty.

Madame De Pompadour

#18. Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Joseph Campbell

#19. It does not matter what happens when we have gone.

Madame De Pompadour