Armchairs Quotes

• I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Art, Balance

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• Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Should, Fatigue

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• While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

  Anne Tyler

  Dream, Travel, Inspirational Adventure

  The Accidental Tourist ch. 6 (1985)

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• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Depressing, Art

  Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30

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• A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

  John Jay Chapman

  Vision, Doe, Mankind

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Greek studies”

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• I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

  Edward Carpenter

  Might, Knows

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• The painter’s instrument
  is his armchair.

  Edouard Vuillard

  Instruments, Painter

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• You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Dog, Kings, Views

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

  Arthur Smith

  Rain, Guy, Kind

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• The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

  James Thurber

  Past, Sound, Comedy

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• I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

  Stephen Fry

  Home, Writing, Marijuana

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• Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, Prayer, Benches

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.46, Penguin

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• All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Peace, Men, Dinner

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.94, U of Minnesota Press

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• The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sky, World, Coraline

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.162, A&C Black

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• How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Eye, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair!

  Feargal Quinn

  Sitting

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• She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Cat, Grandmother

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.162, A&C Black

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• When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Illness And Death, Protection

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• Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Mistake, Errors

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.

  Ayana Mathis

  Rain, Dark, Clouds

  FaceBook post by Ayana Mathis from May 14, 2017

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• Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

  J. C. Ryle

  Winning, Men, Heaven

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

  Laura Lee

  Reading, Adventure, Able

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• Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Hands, Doubt

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• From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate the whole of creation, in whole or in certain parts.

  Paul Otlet

  Distance, Able, Way

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• I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Art, Brother, Book

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies (1998). “The Best of Sherlock Holmes”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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