Renee Vivien famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?
-- Renee Vivien

#Men #What Matters #Doubt
I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.
-- Renee Vivien

#Voice #Heavy #Perfume
There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.
-- Renee Vivien

#Love #Believe #Way
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
-- Renee Vivien

#Masculine #Ugliness
I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
-- Renee Vivien

#Mediocre #Cunning

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Renee Vivien famous quotes

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