The Grand Hotel Quotes

#1. But, the comfort was, that all the company at the grand hotel of Monseigneur were perfectly dressed. If the Day of Judgment had only been ascertained to be a dress day, everybody there would have been eternally correct.

Charles Dickens

#2. They stood by the open window of their hotel room with the rain sweeping into their faces. A bolt of lightning lit up the Grand Canal. Struck it out of the darkness in a searing eloquent flash. The expectation was that the night to come would be no less bracing, no less eloquent.

Glenn Haybittle

#3. You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant - (sighs deeply). Oh, fuck it.

-M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Wes Anderson

#4. 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

Quentin Tarantino

#5. I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

Peter Jurasik

#6. It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

Thomas Paine

#7. That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

Matthieu Ricard

#8. If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

Joan Crawford

#9. Knives and candlelight," he said, "how romantic.

Nenia Campbell

#10. It was the single best sexual encounter I've ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you're banging the girl of your dreams and you're watching it right now.'

Pete Wentz

#11. The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.

Pearl Zhu

#12. It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

David Mamet

#13. The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no
opinion about things I don't understand.

Gertrude Stein

#14. Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in.

Tara Moss

#15. Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.

Veronica Roth

#16. Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.

Patrick White

#17. How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand ... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.. that have taken hold.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. triremes with a half deck for carrying full sail and more sailors

Christian Cameron

#19. Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

John Keats

#20. I saw 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' I liked it. I saw 'The Fault in Our Stars,' and I could see why young girls like it. But it dropped off like crazy in the second weekend. I liked 'Fed Up' - I love documentaries. I go to a lot of documentaries.

Rob Reiner

#21. When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

Shane Claiborne