"Lots of English people say exactly the opposite……" — Leon Krier

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean. - Leon Krier

"Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean."

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24 Quotes by Leon Krier

Leon Krier has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them…
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a…
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand…
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended,…
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared…

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More English Quotes

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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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