Quotes About Melmotte

#1. The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

George Herbert

#2. Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Of course he had committed forgery;
of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.

Anthony Trollope

#4. My past behaviour makes me cringe.

Denise Van Outen

#5. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

James Baldwin

#6. A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it ...

Julia Kristeva

#8. If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'

Padmasree Warrior

#9. A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.

Johanna Siguroardottir