Personage Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not… — T. Coleman du Pont
The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the… — Bruce R. McConkie
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the… — George Grosz
The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They… — Dane Rudhyar
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and,… — Kenneth Grahame
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,- a personage less imposing in the… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features… — Francisco Goya
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great… — Francois Arago
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my… — Herman Melville
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned… — Andre Gide
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and… — Joseph Wood Krutch
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. — Anna Quindlen
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male… — Pam Gems
The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should… — Walt Disney
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er… — William Wordsworth
A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny. — Bobby Darin
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause… — Joss Whedon
Do you think me horselike, my lord?" Realizing the threat to his personage, Blackmoor wiped the smile from his face and replied, "Not at all.… — Sarah MacLean
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or… — Stendhal

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