Quotes About Culture

Shakespeare = We all make his

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

One of the most insidious and probably profoundly dangerous coping mechanisms that we have absolutely glommed on to as a culture is staying busy," she tells me. "And the whole unconscious idea behind it is 'If I stay busy enough, I will never know the truth of how absolutely pissed off I am, how resentful I am, how exhausted I am from juggling everything.

Every savage can dance.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these. - Mr. Darcy

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world

Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I'm afraid it is not very particular

Oh! Who can be ever tired of Bath?

But, said I, to be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition for nothing else, but without music, life would be a blank to me.

La personne, homme ou femme, qui n'éprouve pas de plaisir à la lecture d'un bon roman ne peut qu'être d'une bêtise intolérable.

Es gran lectora, y no encuentra placer en otra cosa.

No doubt one is familiar with Shakespeare to a degree, from one's earliest years. His celebrated passages are quoted by everybody; they are in half the books we open, and we all talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions...

En mi concepto, la buena compañía, señor Elliot, es la de personas inteligentes y bien informadas que puedan conversar de muchas cosas; eso es lo que yo llamo buena compañía

No comprendo que en estos tiempos se descuide una biblioteca familiar.

It was a sweet view-sweet to the eye and the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive.

No parecía haber pobreza de ninguna clase, excepto en la conversación...

He was evidently a young man of considerable taste in reading

This," said she, "is nearly the sense, or rather the meaning of the words, for certainly the sense of an Italian love-song must not be talked of,—but it is as nearly the meaning as I can give; for I do not pretend to understand the language. I am a very poor Italian scholar.

how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.

I learnt from Mrs. Tickars's young lady, to my high amusement, that the stays now are not made to force the bosom up at all; that was a very unbecoming, unnatural fashion. I was really glad to hear that they are not to be so much off the shoulders as they were.

A heroic society is almost a contradiction in terms.

Herman glowered, saying that clearly only Americans were historians now. 'They have so little of it to learn,' said Dulcie.

very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.