Cases Quote by Herman Melville

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

— Honore de Balzac

The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.…

— Ben Aaronovitch

Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them.…

— Jerry Falwell

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets.…

— Karen DeCrow

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

— Simon Schama

Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith…

— Rem Koolhaas

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out…

— J. G. Ballard

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose…

— Tim Gunn

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

— Michael Heizer

Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious…

— Jose Carreras