Quotes About Culture

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

France is great because she is France.

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

Respirer Paris, cela conserve l'âme.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul.

To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

and when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be born in Paris.

The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle; Alexander upon the elephant.

For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.

Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

She was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and cried for vengeance, saying: Father, you owe my husband affront for affront. The father asked: On which cheek did you receive the blow? On the left cheek. The father slapped her right cheek and said: Now you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's.

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

étudier à Paris, c'est naître à Paris.

Qui que vousw soyez qui voulez cultiver, vivifier, édifier, attendrir, apaiser... mettez des livres partout. [Ouverture du congrès littéraire international de 1878)]

The poacher lives in the forest, the smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

In small towns, the social dynamic was like concrete; it set early and hard.