Telle Quotes
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Telle est donc la condition humaine que souhaiter la grandeur de son pays, c’est souhaiter du mal à ses voisins.
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More Telle Quotes
Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely and so large; Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.
Geoffrey Chaucer— General Prologue, l. 733.
What maketh this, but Juppiter the kyng, That is prince and cause of alle thyng Convertynge al unto his propre welle From which it is deryved, sooth to telle, And heer-agayns no creature on lyve Of no degree availleth for to strive. Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessity, And take it weel, that we may nat eschue; And namely, that to us alle is due.
Geoffrey Chaucer— The Knight's Tale, lV 2177 - 2186.
It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.
african spir— p. 54 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
Take something commoplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.
jean cocteau— Mettez un lieu commun en place, nettoyez-le, frottez-le, éclairez-le de telle sorte qu'il frappe avec sa jeunesse et avec la même fraîcheur, le même jet qu'il avait à sa source, vous ferez œuvre de poète. Tout le reste est littérature.
— "Le Secret Professionnel" (originally published 1922); later published in Collected Works Vol. 9 (1950)
Sur un mince chrystal l'hyver conduit leurs pas, telle est de nos plaisirs la legere surface, Glissez mortels; n'appuyez pas.
— O'er the ice the rapid skater flies,<brWith sport above and death below,
Where mischief lurks in gay disguise
Thus lightly touch and quickly go.
— Pierre Charles Roy, lines under a picture of skaters, a print of a painting by Lancret. Translation by Samuel Johnson. See Piozzi, Anecdotes.
