Edmond de Goncourt Quotes

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Edmond de Goncourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: May 26, 1822 - July 16, 1896

Topics

TrueNationHonestCrookedEnglish

I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.

Jennifer Hyman

MusicListeningSongI CanCountry

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

Anatoly Chubais

GoodProcessNothingWillNever

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

Ann Romney

ProblemsEveryoneEverybodyIssues

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

WisdomExperienceOldUsFolly

I think I'll never stop doing theater because it's a more physical and athletic activity. You can't pull any punches; there are no short cuts, and you have to be physically present and committed. I love the excitement and the response of being in front of a live audience.

Sterling K. Brown

LoveLiveThinkPresentShortDoing

I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.

Sophie Kinsella

PeopleBookThinkStandSomeoneYou

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

Spalding Gray

PeopleBabyWhySome PeopleNeed

I'm a great believer in outlines.

Tom Wolfe

GreatBelieverGreat Believer

That's my goal: to get the world to know who Romeo Santos is. His music. My music. Even if they don't like it, I want them to know who I am.

Romeo Santos

MusicI AmWorldGoalKnowWant

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

Russell Brand

MeUpOwnHerOtherReally

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

Mike Pompeo

FailureBorderSouthernOurOccurred

I had elements that were much more than what Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates had. If I work according to their methods, what will I create? All of this was in my head when I was young.

Mohammad bin Salman

WorkCreateYoungWillMoreHead

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