Amenities Quote by Cornelia Otis Skinner Download Open image “That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.” — Cornelia Otis Skinner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amenities Art Communication Conversation Great art Women
I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
It must be something extraordinary to be able to say to yourself that the happiness of every French person is in your hands. — Kylian Mbappe Copy Share Image
“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.” — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Here is everything I know about France: Madeline and Amelie and Moulin Rouge. The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, although I have… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“My parents took us to dinner but we came back early. Tomorrow was to be a day of days and we must get a… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that… — T.I Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Mammoth is an incredible community and world-class attraction, ... Were committed to creating a vibrant living experience that matches the natural, majestic beauty of… — Puff Daddy Copy Share Image
Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ... — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
