Estreich 1918 Quotes & Sayings

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! — Henry Drummond

I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god. — Edgar Degas

You can't just replace someone with a regular-looking guy who didn't say any of the lines. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror. — Georges Bataille

It was chivalrous because she was too remote for real companionship, so that there was always a kind of chance in one's offering; perhaps she would not perceive it; perhaps she would kindle rapture by a sudden recognition; her distance made such close moments exquisitely sweet. But alas, no humble friendship however romantic, could give her the sense that we completely shared her thoughts; the nature of them made it hard for anyone to understand; and her sorrow was very lonely. Perhaps one would come into a room unexpectedly and surprise her in tears, and, to one's miserable confusion, she would hide them instantly, and speak ordinary words, as though she did not imagine that one could understand her suffering. — Virginia Woolf

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example. — John Walter Bratton

Fate once made you American. Fate took it away. — Amy Tan