💬 Quotes

"Pan, and the nymphs, and the dryads have fled, or have died of grief at the foot of their mutilated trees. The world is empty, because Christ has conquered."

"Beauty is a great thing, Vinicius, but truth is greater."

"Power is a wonderful thing, but love is greater still, for it subdues even death."

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

"Tous pour un, un pour tous."

"Il y a des époques où l'on se croirait dans un monde fantastique, où les gens s'entretuent pour un regard, pour un mot."

"La défiance est le commencement de la sagesse en politique."

"Il n'y a ni passé ni avenir; le présent est seul à notre disposition."

"L'amour est le plus grand des maux et le plus grand des biens."

"Un homme ne doit jamais se repentir de ses folies, car c'est le seul moyen d'en faire de nouvelles."

"A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere."

"He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity."

"Local tales and superstitions thrive best in these sheltered, long-settled retreats, but are trampled under foot by the shifting throng that forms the population of most of our country places."

"Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so enticing a morsel soon won his homage."

"To have an host of fearful fancies besetting him at each lonely turn, some grim monster appalling him in the dark, should he but turn a look behind, was for the unfortunate Ichabod all too much."

"The old country wives, however, who are best judges of these matters, maintain to this day that Ichabod was spirited away by supernatural means."

"I had the story bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."

"He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an embodiment of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface."

"Guess everything's got to come to an end at some time or other."

"We've always known each other, kind of."