(307 quotes found)
“How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?”
Charles de Gaulle
“I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust”
Igor Stravinsky
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety, other women cloy”
William Shakespeare
“The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Having a few pairs of boots, which can go with a variety of lengths, is really functional.”
Valerie Steele
“The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety”
Publilius Syrus
“No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety”
“Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.”
George V. Higgins
“Anthropology holds up a great mirror to man and lets him look at himself in his infinite variety.”
Clyde Kluckhohn
“My chief responsibilities have been described as soliciting and procuring. The illegal variety would be easier. And it certainly would be more profitable.”
Rebecca Greer