Well-known Quotations
- Cyrano, talking about his own nose:
- Descriptive: It's a rock! A peak! A cape!
- – A cape? Forsooth! It's a peninsula!
- In French:
- Descriptif : C'est un roc ! C'est un pic ! C'est un cap !
- – Que dis-je, c'est un cap ! C'est une péninsule !
- Cyrano, prompting Christian, explaining to Roxane what a kiss means to him:
- A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
- An oath that's ratified, a sealed promise,
- A heart's avowal claiming confirmation,
- A rose-dot on the 'i' of 'adoration';
- A secret that to mouth, not ear, is whispered ...
- In French:
- Un baiser, mais à tout prendre, qu'est-ce ?
- Un serment fait d'un peu plus près, une promesse
- Plus précise, un aveu qui veut se confirmer,
- Un point rose qu'on met sur l'i du verbe aimer;
- C'est un secret qui prend la bouche pour oreille ...
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Famous quotes containing the words well-known and/or quotations:
“In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,—for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,—do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)