Yonville Quotes

#1. In spite of her vapourish airs (as the housewives of Yonville called them), Emma, all the same, never seemed gay, and usually she had at the corners of her mouth that immobile contraction that puckers the faces of old maids, and those of men whose ambition has failed.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom.

Nenia Campbell

#3. One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

Dean Rusk

#4. Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

Charles Bukowski

#5. History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: - it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread.

Wislawa Szymborska

#6. You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

Max Brooks

#7. During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them.

Eric Schlosser

#8. love yourself to the fullest no matter what has been said or done

Monica Porter

#9. I had always thought of my vagina as an anatomical vacuum randomly sucking up particles and objects from the surrounding environment.

Eve Ensler

#10. You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Margaret Mitchell

#11. Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules was that you'd have to have tangible evidence, and documentary evidence was not sufficient.

Marvin Hier