Banquets Quotes - Page 5

• In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

  Quintilian

  Journey, Ideas, Crowds

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• We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret.

  Macdonald Critchley

  Secret, Brain, Ingredients

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• The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoritative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs...

  Michael Jackson

  Revenge, Character, Home

  "In Sierra Leone".

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• At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at play has got its hair tossed and its clothes soiled. These misfortunes have befallen me in battling with souls. But very soon the Blessed Virgin hastens to my aid: quickly, she takes off my dirty little pinafore, smoothes my hair and adorns it with a pretty ribbon or simply with a little flower... and this suffices to render me pleasing and enables me to sit at the Banquet of Angels without blushing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Children, Dirty, Flower

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.73, TAN Books

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• For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Godly

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• Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Inspiration, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.8, BookBaby

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• On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Awards, Honor

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• When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crazy, Smell, Hollywood

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.87, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

  Max Horkheimer

  Careers, Interesting, Doe

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• Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheer, Sight, Desire

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Innocence, Endure, Ability

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Kings, Greek, Musical

  Histories 16.91.5-6,

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• Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.

  Brock Yates

  School, Race, Giving

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• Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Pain, Party, Gay

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• Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Body, Guests, Ideals

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.

  Shana Alexander

  Moving, Light, Rome

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• literature is the last banquet between minds.

  Edna O'Brien

  Mind, Literature, Lasts

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• ... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

  Elaine Dundy

  Spectators, Disinterested

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.37, New York Review of Books

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• A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Long, Cooking

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

  Bennett Cerf

  Food, Cooking, Speech

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• In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more than painting might do. They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. But music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Music, Wine, Criticism

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• [When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.

  Kim Campbell

  Gowns, Evening, Wit

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• Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

  Sarah Bird

  Parent, Bread, Live By

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• The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Luxury, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Society and solitude”

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• It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

  Stacy Aumonier

  Easier

  Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”

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