Smyrna Quotes

#1. There was a Young Person of Smyrna,
whose grandmother threatened to burn her;
But she seized on the cat,
and said, Granny, burn that!
You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!

Edward Lear

#2. Turkish." Vocabulary was deleted, new words added. Place-names all over the country were Turkified (for example, "Smyrna" became "Izmir"), which only added confusion and another obfuscating layer to the buildup of historical sediment.

Eric Bogosian

#3. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.

Alexandre Dumas

#4. Dr. Phil never talked about Smyrna and left the room if anyone did. He never mentioned his murdered sons and daughters. Maybe this was the reason for his survival.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#5. bread were being baked, or gold or silver purified in a furnace." Afterwards the Christians of Smyrna wish to collect his remains, desiring "to have a share in his holy flesh." Before they are allowed to do so, they have to overcome the objections of pagans and

Robert Bartlett

#6. Beauty is a possession not our own.

Bion Of Smyrna

#7. Happy is love or friendship when returned
The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

Bion Of Smyrna

#8. Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.

Bion Of Smyrna

#9. He looked, and with a sort of awareness and surprise that made me fire the second arrow. Just in case - just in case that intelligence was of the immortal, wicked sort. He didn't try to dodge the arrow as it went clean through his wide yellow eye. He collapsed to the ground. Color

Sarah J. Maas

#10. The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

Bion Of Smyrna

#11. O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

Thom Yorke

#13. Jest with your equals.

Bion Of Smyrna

#14. With great power comes great dissipation.

Timothy Poston

#15. This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence.

Gustave Le Bon