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Inspirational Quotes by Peter De Vries
- We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
- The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
- Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
- Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
- How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?
- Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.
- People rarely do what they don't want to.
- Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
- What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
- Are you pro- or anti-macassar?
- Exercise is an unnatural act.
- Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.
- There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ...
- I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
- I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
- The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
- Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
- We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
- Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
- The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
- I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
- A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento