Quotes About Mots

#1. I will cover the walls with words. It will be la chambre des mots.

Anais Nin

#2. Voltaire was also there, fleeing a royal arrest warrant, and working as a kind of one-man eighteenth-century USO show during the siege, offering bons mots and brandy between bouts of battle and composing odes to the military men. The

Tom Reiss

#3. Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

Duncan Roy

#4. Death is the word that kills all the words. (La mort est un mot - Qui tue tous les mots)

Charles De Leusse

#5. All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

Rabih Alameddine

#6. It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

#7. Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

Joseph Joubert

#8. A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.

Horace Walpole

#9. We don't choose our freaks, they choose us ... We may not understand why we freak on a particular food or band or sports team. We may have no conscious control over out allegiances, But they arise from our most scared fears and desires and, as such, they represent the truest expression of ourselves.

Steve Almond

#10. 'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.

Ida Lupino

#11. Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

William Kennedy

#12. The interesting people are always immoderate.

Jonathan Franzen

#13. I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand ... if I'm holding a calculator.

Sebastian Horsley

#14. I'll smoke weed occasionally, on special occasions like a movie night or something. I like to drink beer but whenever it comes to hard drugs, I really believe that they hurt your body, deplete your energy.

Christofer Drew

#15. If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!

Samuel Fuller

#16. A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?

Behdad Sami