Quotes About Frederic

I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

In the first place, the word universal conceals a gross sophism.

The problem is, not to find whether the picture is mournful, but whether it is true. And for that we have the testimony of history.

What needs explanation is not poverty, which is the natural state of mankind, but wealth.

Un jour un journaliste américain trouverait un diminutif pour désigner les Bourgeois-Bohèmes ; il les baptiserait les « bobos ».

Én... Nem... Nem gondoltam, hogy... (Hirtelen olyan ékesszóló lettem, mint Patrick Modiano.)

Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet. (Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)

The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.

I felt like Frederic Moreau arriving late and uninvited at Monsieur Dambreuse's elite salon in Flaubert's Sentimental Education—a

Henri Frédéric Amiel