Andre Gide Quotes

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Andre Gide

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951

Topics

AgeHonorWithoutMiddleCross

So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

Jennifer Lee

AmericanCookiesMoreAnythingThan

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

LifeChangeDieChangesLeaveUs

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Mel Brooks

WinStandYouRhetoricNeverTrade

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Maya Angelou

SuccessHeartCareYouFindWill

Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Steve Mnuchin

TruthHardshipsNothingOthersFirst

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

Tom Wolfe

WorkManMeSituationNowTry

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Robert Fulghum

HumanExistenceCageKeepBars

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

Michelle Pfeiffer

StupidBackGoSometimesSayOld

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

Jonathan Powell

Establishment

You need to walk the talk, because you can't expect your organization to behave a certain way that you're not willing to behave.

Denise Morrison

WalkOrganizationYouWayTalkNeed

There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

Christopher Fowler

FailureBetterLongLostComfortable

People are not patient anymore.

Antonio Banderas

PeoplePatientAnymore

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