Personage Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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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
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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
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I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
— Anna Quindlen
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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
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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
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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
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A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
— Bobby Darin
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Personage Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Personage Quotes as follows: