Civilisation Quote by Theodore Zeldin Download Open image “The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.” — Theodore Zeldin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilisation Claim Claims Communication Conversation French Made
“Many French people were difficult conversationalists. Asking them not only where they were originally from but what they did in life was considered rude—I suppose because many of them did nothing (many Parisians are rentiers, people who live off the rents of their properties) or because they weren’t proud of their jobs, which simultaneously supported and interfered with their intellectual… — Edmund White Copy Share
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, but the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.” — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries.… — Maurice Dekobra Copy Share Image
The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
What does it mean to dance? What does it mean to commit a crime? What does it mean to be anxious? What does it… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The tendency of experts is to fiddle around with their expertise rather than trying to find new solutions. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Change the way you think, and you are already halfway to changing the world. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
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