Bistro Quote by Lawrence Durrell

“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

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which…

— John Marshall

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

— Eric Hoffer

That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material…

— Frederick Jackson Turner

And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans…

— Herb Ritts

I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder,…

— Vikram Seth

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

— Thomas Jefferson

To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the…

— Lajos Kossuth

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

— Anais Nin

To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and the urge…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Quentin Schultze says that we have become like tourists who are so enamored by our mode of transportation that we cruise through nation after…

— Tim Challies

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

— T. S. Eliot