Genlis Quotes & Sayings

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with. — Glenn Ford

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it. — Simon McBurney

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh! — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing. — Bob Shacochis

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty? — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

I think diversity has to happen on a storytelling level, not just on a casting level. — Kelvin Yu

As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command. — John F. Kerry

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place. — Thomas De Maiziere

Words are worn wisdom but thats not always fashionable... J — Jean Long

Do not sanction an absurdity. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology of the Faculty of Paris, Abbe of Simore, who had been Bishop of D - in 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about it had a grand air, - the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brulart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince — Victor Hugo

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. — Deng Xiaoping

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

He spent the last second of his life screaming, as the force of Bortan's leap pulped him against the ground, before his head was snatched from his shoulders.
My hellhound had arrived. — Roger Zelazny

Principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My Lords Charles Brulart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, Abbe of Saint Honore de Lerins; Francois de Berton de Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; Cesar de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, Seignor of Glandeve; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a table of white marble. — Victor Hugo

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind. — Cassandra Clare

Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive. — Jack Donovan

Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, our touch, in what we write and say, in the way we walk and the way we receive and in the way we serve. — Mother Teresa