"What is an aristocrat? A woman who is……" — Muriel Barbery
"What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it."
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92 Quotes by Muriel Barbery
Muriel Barbery has 92 quotes on this site.
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like…
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Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence…
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Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe.…
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What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending…
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic…
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Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
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Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of…
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To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all…
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There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much…
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile,…
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to…
— Michael York
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with…
— Andrew Johnson
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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
— James Weldon Johnson
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
— Benjamin Rush
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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom
— Georg Buchner
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar…
— Lytton Strachey
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Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went…
— Michael Foley
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