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Bon Mots Quotes

Quotes tagged as "bon-mots" Showing 1-7 of 7
William  Kennedy
“Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.”
William Kennedy, Roscoe

Sebastian Horsley
“I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.”
Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

Jonathan Franzen
“The interesting people are always immoderate.”
Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my little hometown library.
As a college student I was educated in the
stacks of the Swarthmore library. And as an adult I use libraries daily in my search for the facts and the enlightenment I use in writing my books.
In fact, I like libraries so much that I
married a librarian.”
James Michener, Reader's Digest Condensed Books - Deluxe Edition, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Vine and the Olive, The Source, Geordie, The Century of the Surgeon

Evelyn Waugh
“Те, у кого есть обаяние, в мозгах не нуждаются.”
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Szczepan Twardoch
“co jest ważne, ale nie ma żadnego znaczenia”
Szczepan Twardoch, Drach

Undinė Radzevičiūtė
“A palotában senki nem gyötörte magát azzal, hogy magyarázatot keresett volna, miért van az egyszarvúnak két szarva.
Anélkül is világos: egy olyan egyszarvú, amelyiknek két szarva van, az még jobb egyszarvú.”
Undinė Radzevičiūtė, Žuvys ir drakonai