Inhabitant Quotes
More Inhabitant Quotes
You cannot be absolutely dumb when you live with a person unless you are an inhabitant of the North of England or the State of Maine.
— 1915 The Good Soldier, pt.3, ch.4.
The inscrutability of the East is, indeed, I believe a myth? The ordinary inhabitant is incomprehensible merely to people who never trouble to have anything much to do with them.
Dame Freya Madeleine Stark— 1963 TheJourney's Echo.
Any great work of art ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein— "What Makes Opera Grand?", Vogue (December 1958)
Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate,By every breach in that fair lodging made,Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.
john oldham— To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 106; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.
Henry David Thoreau— April 26, 1841
In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bushman would very soon go mad.
wystan hugh auden— "The Justice of Dame Kind", p. 464
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
andré gide— “Characters,” p. 299
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night V, line 596.
Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.
thomas paine— Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
Any great work of art ... revives and readapts time and space , and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
— Leonard Bernstein, "What Makes Opera Grand?" Vogue (December 1958)
