Gallant Gentlemen Quotes

The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon. — Jenny Offill

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. — Andrew Wyeth

The lesson taught by the war was clear: to be human is to be small, powerless, and subject to the forces of randomness. — David J. Morris

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall

We meet as mortal enemies hereafter - let us, like gallant gentlemen, exchange polite attentions in the meantime. — Wilkie Collins

Did you call me an assjacket again? I gotta say, it sounds like a compliment coming from you. — Ophelia London

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely. — Friedrich Schleiermacher

Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads. — Jeff VanderMeer

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done. — Charlotte Rampling

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it. — Marina And The Diamonds

The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits. — Karl Marlantes

Some of you may not like what I had to say, but these are the things that I've noticed and believe should be said. — Auliq Ice

Without challenges we would literally wither and die (which also would be perfect). — Bryan Kest

Your name's longer'n you are. — Harper Lee