Mona Quotes
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Its clones have hung on so many suburban walls over the decades that it has become the Mona Lisa of the vegetable world.
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More Mona Quotes
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
camille paglia— p. 154 (Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990))
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report?
Alfred Whitney Griswold— Baccalaureate address, 9 June 1957.
You're the smile On the Mona Lisa.
Cole Porter— "You're the Top"
On a sofa upholstered in panther skin Mona did researches in original sin.
william plomer— 1960 'Mews Flat Mona'.
To póki o wskrzeszeniu Polski by?a rada, O dobru pospolitym, g?upi, u was zwada? Nie mo?na by?o, g?upi, ani si? rozmówi?, G?upi, ani porz?dku, ani postanowi? Wodza nad wami, g?upi! a niech no kto podda Osobiste urazy, g?upi, u was zgoda!
— Translation:
When talk was to raise Poland again from this rubble,
And of common good, stupid, all you did was squabble,
No one could, stupid, either exchange proper views,
In some good order, stupid, nor properly choose
A chief over you, stupid! But should one by chance
Bring out your private hurts, fools, agreement at once!
— Comment: Maciek Dobrzy?ski's remonstrance.
