Famous quotes containing the words reception, history, austen and/or cultured:
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)