Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Jean Giraudoux
A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.
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Jean Giraudoux
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
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Jean Giraudoux
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
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Jean Giraudoux
All of us here know there's no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
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Jean Giraudoux
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
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Jean Giraudoux
Ask any soldier: To kill a man is to merit a woman.
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Jean Giraudoux
Faithful women are all alike. They think only of their fidelity and not of their husbands.
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Jean Giraudoux
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
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Jean Giraudoux
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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Jean Giraudoux
Madame, we are the press. You know our power. We fix all values. We set all standards. Your entire future depends on us.
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Jean Giraudoux
Often an unsolved secret gives us more beauty and freedom than its solution can give us.
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Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
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Jean Giraudoux
There are truths which can kill a nation.
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Jean Giraudoux
There's nothing so stubborn as a man when you want him to do something.
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Jean Giraudoux
You recognize error in that everyone participates in it.
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William Ewart Gladstone
[The Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.
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William Ewart Gladstone
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Finance is, as it were, the stomach of the country, from which all the other organs take their tone.