Burlesque Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Download Open image “A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.” — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burlesque Inspirational Love Powerful Sermons
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It is more… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Topical preaching, polemical preaching, historical preaching, and other forms of sermonic output have, one supposes, their rightful and opportune uses. But expository preaching—the prayerful… — E.M. Bounds Copy Share Image
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The preached Word is an event that creates hearers; through preaching, the Word comes alive in hearers’ lives. When this happens, the Word can… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back.… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have… — George Sidney Copy Share Image
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“What modern day burlesquer hasn't been influenced by Sally Rand? My own pink ostrich fans -designed by Catherine, naturally- were the largest fans on… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“Doubtless Princess Juliana intended for me to overhear her comment on seeing Theodora in wedding regalia. “She’s like wisteria: beautiful in a vulgarly decorative… — Carol Strickland Copy Share Image
Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified. — Esme Bianco Copy Share Image
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