culture Quotes

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.