Quotes About Monde

#1. Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

Charles Baudelaire

#2. A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
[Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

Blaise Pascal

#4. Everyone can get the gold of the Sun. (Tout le monde cueille - L'or du soleil)

Charles De Leusse

#5. The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

Marlene Dumas

#6. Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.'

Dave Brubeck

#8. I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

Rufus Wainwright

#9. Gracious, that's a lot of bosom you're showing," Magnus went on blithely, gesturing toward Tessa with the burning tip of his cigar. "Tout le monde sur le balcon, as they say in French," he added, miming a vast terrace jutting out from his chest. "Especially apt, as we are now, in fact, on a balcony.

Cassandra Clare

#10. There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.

Washington Irving

#11. I chuckled like Aldo Ray. If I had to endure his l'homme du monde act, he had to suffer my jaded alcoholic private eye.

James Crumley

#12. There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
[Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

Simon Hoggart

#14. Miss Daisy Morrison, behaving so scandalously on her very first public appearance among the beau monde, would not easily be forgiven. But of course a

Mary Balogh

#15. I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Imelda May

#16. Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Charles Spurgeon

#17. When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

Fred Thompson

#19. I don't eat wheat and am into alternative medicines and treatment.

Arizona Muse

#20. We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

Yoshihiko Noda

#21. The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

Peter Piot

#22. Firmly, Luke put the thought out of his mind. Mourning the loss of a friend and teacher was both fitting and honorable, but to dwell unnecessarily on that loss was to give the past too much power over the present. The

Timothy Zahn

#23. I believe that things we cry over because they are lost, can never be compared to things we will receive because of our loses. God is a great restorer!

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

Michelangelo Antonioni