(221 quotes found)
“It is summer, it is the solsticethe crowd ischeering, the crowd is laughingin detailpermanently, seriouslywithout thought.”
William Carlos Williams
“There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.”
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
“You know the Priory? I've got a permanent room booked there in case I ever think about it.”
Philip Green
“A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The statue is permanently out of place in my house,”
Steven Wright
“The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.”
Yvonne de Gaulle
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.”
Charlie Chaplin
“At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.”
Orson Welles
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
Jack London
“Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.”
Cyril Connolly
