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Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.
— Louis Pullig De Gouy
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
— Shirley Maclaine
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
— Vladimir Lenin
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
— Ellen Glasgow
Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.
— Samuel Richardson
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
— Isaiah Berlin
This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.
— Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
— James Clerk Maxwell
Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,
but so much music wounded me. — Rainer Maria Rilke
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end
— Heinrich Heine
Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous
— Joel C. Rosenberg
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Anger is the prelude to courage.
— Eric Hoffer
The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
— Eduard Hanslick
A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.
— Rachel Kushner
To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.
— Gilles Kepel
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
— Annie Besant
Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse
— Sylvia Plath
Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.
— Matthew Specktor
Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.
— Lady Gaga
But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.
— William Cowper
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
— Mahatma Gandhi