Country Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he…

— Céleste Albaret

Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I thought of…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“We are all poor; but there is a difference between what Mrs. Spark intends by speaking of 'slender means', and what Stevens called our…

— Frank Kermode

“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of…

— Hector Carsewell Macpherson

The things I connected with Zurich about were that he is a selfless person; he wants the best for everybody. He wants to see…

— Trevor Jackson

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

— Nigel Mansell

“At the age when we are all of us most apt to take our colouring, in the form of a reflection from the colouring…

— William Wilkie Collins

“And you dare to wear the golden spurs of a knight? You dare to call yourself a Marshal of France and carry the fleur-de-lis…

— Anonymous

“He was an unpleasant sort of character, professionally indignant, who'd built up his whole career abroad, selling our national horrors to European readers. Misery…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche,…

— Edmund Burke

I think sometimes drive and ambition of individuals should not be confused as arrogance, and sometimes Cristiano gets that tag on him.

— Andre Villas-Boas