Quotes About Provence

#1. When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.

Frederic Mistral

#2. The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. I wouldn't have minded living in Provence for a month or however long it took for me to learn to say, 'I've been attacked by a wild boar. Help me find my spleen!

Michael J. Fox

#4. From time to time we shall get up and go to the door and look out at the great moon and say: 'Why, it is nearly as bright as in Provence!' And then we shall come back to the fireside, with just the touch of a sigh because we are not in that Provence where even the saddest stories are gay.

Ford Madox Ford

#5. The first parts of Europe 'to emerge from barbarism,' Briffault says, were those most directly under the influence of 'Moorish' culture: the Spanish Marches of Catalonia, Provence, and Sicily.

S.E. Al-Djazairi

#6. Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with
enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety of
Provence: sunshine.

Frederic Mistral

#7. Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.

Elizabeth David

#8. The people of Provence greeted spring with uncharacteristic briskness, as if nature had given everyone an injection of sap.

Peter Mayle

#9. Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

Honore De Balzac

#10. I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine ... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed ... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin ...

Paul Cezanne

#11. When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

Arthur Koestler

#12. Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.

Eric Idle

#13. My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.

Colin Meloy

#14. Can eating heal you? With every bite of food steeped in the herbs and oils of Provence he seemed to absorb a little more of the land that lay ahead; it was as if he were eating the surrounding countryside. Already he could taste the wild banks of the Loire, covered in forests and vineyards.

Nina George

#15. Some three years ago I drove down to Provence to spend a summer weekend with a lady who was interesting to me simply because she possessed an extraordinarily powerful muscle in a region where other women have no muscles at all.

Roald Dahl

#16. It is the circuit of the great ruinous deed when the name of the seventh is that of the fifth; when the third, even greater, the warlike stranger will take Paris, nor will Provence save her.

Nostradamus

#17. There's a lot of satisfaction that comes from knowing you're doing your best, and there's even more that comes when it begins to pay off. I

Alex Ferguson

#18. I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people.

Blake Mycoskie

#19. The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

Iain Pears

#20. Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

John Paul Caponigro

#21. Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.

Dianne Harman

#22. How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social
I mean a purse?

Thomas Carlyle

#23. I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

Casey Nicholaw

#24. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high-school education.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#25. If you become full-blown consciousness, everything that can be known will be known to you.

Sadghuru

#26. Courage lights your path on the dark road to success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.

Richard Olney

#28. It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven. A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life.

Friedrich Holderlin

#29. There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Paulo Coelho