Peasant Quotes
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The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
— Jules Renard
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
— Anton Chekhov
She gazed and wondered, like a child or peasant, and paid her silent tribute to visible grandeur.
— Henry James
One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
— John Lancaster Spalding
There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.
— Confucius
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.
— Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
A peasant with gold is still a peasant
— Tom Doig
I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
And what great thing have you done?" asked the peasant. "We? Oh, nothing." "Then to the oven!" he replied. The
— Emilia Pardo Bazan
To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.
— Jakaya Kikwete
Yes, one of the benefits of being embarrassingly rich is that you find out if you have syphilis much earlier than the average peasant would.
— Abigail Barnette
The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.
— William Butler Yeats
The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little.
— Kenneth Minogue
The Underground Peasant Movement adopted the slogan of "As little, as late, and as bad as possible," and set about sabotaging deliveries
— Diane Ackerman
Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.
— Wallace Stevens
I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
— Henry IV Of France
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
— Walter Mosley
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
— Pierre Laval
I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food.
— Raymond Kelly
He fancies himself as a collector. Really, he is a peasant.
— Torquil MacLeod
My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.
— Victoria Alexander
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Bearded peasant goes in one end of an alley, clean-shaven gentleman comes out the other? Really?" "It's a classic!
— Scott Lynch
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.
— Henry IV Of France
You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!
— William Shakespeare
Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all.
— Orlando Figes
The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.
— H.P. Lovecraft
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
— George Eliot
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
— F. Sionil Jose
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
— Confucius
I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'
— Robin Williams
When a peasant has a baby girl, the family puts up a vegetable every year and gives the jars to her when she's married. This
— Mark Kurlansky
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
— John Updike
Field is the palace of the peasant!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
— Nicolas Chamfort
I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
They dismissed me as a peasant, I dismissed them as shallow, and we were all happy like that.
— Ilona Andrews
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
— Milla Jovovich
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
— Graham Greene
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields
— Saddam Hussein
My veracity is dearer to me than my life," said the peasant; "nor would I purchase the one by forfeiting the other.
— Horace Walpole
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
— Vladimir Lenin
It didn't really matter who someone was, princess, peasant, rebel, or just a boy or a girl.
— Morgan Rhodes
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
— Giuseppe Verdi
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
— Dan Buettner
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
— Mao Zedong
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
— Winston S. Churchill
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
— Salvador Dali
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
One of the things that made Susan so interesting was the fact that she looked like a Jewish princess and worked like a Bulgarian peasant.
— Robert B. Parker
Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.
— Kahlil Gibran
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
— Bayard Taylor
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
— C.S. Forester
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
— James Joyce
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.
— Louis Pasteur
But peasant's pride is lordling's shame.
— George R R Martin
If a peasant offers you a beautiful fruit with his dirty hands, take it with endless gratitude because his hands became dirty for your happiness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
— Henry David Thoreau
How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!
— Joe Abercrombie
I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!
— Thomas Hardy
Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.
— Martin Luther
I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
— Mayim Bialik
Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.
— Garrison Keillor
Steward, it's our place to protect you.""If I die in your absence Prince Jalan is to be demoted to peasant. There, I should be safe enough now? — Mark Lawrence
A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.
— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
The lord is the peasant that was,The peasant is the lord that shall be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
— Emile Zola
Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.
— Marian Keyes
Turkey's true master is the peasant.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk