"Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance……" — Peter Mayle
"Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be looking for company. Instead, the impression should be that one is heading into the cafe to make a phone call to one's titled Italian admirer, when--quelle surprise!--one sees a friend. The sunglasses can then be removed and the hair tossed while one is persuaded to sit down."
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Peter Mayle
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25 Quotes by Peter Mayle
Peter Mayle has 25 quotes on this site.
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we…
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Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two…
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The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to…
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I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of…
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Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and…
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It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side…
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There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .
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Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.
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I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.
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Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.
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Best advice I've ever received: Finish.
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Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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