What did Lady Violet mean by: First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I’m living in an H.G. Wells novel. - Lady Violet Author · England Copy
+ Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lady Violet, Awkward, Party, Prayer, 0 - Lady Violet Author · England
+ If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lady Violet, Class, Logic, 0 - Lady Violet Author · England
+ No family is ever what it seems from the outside. Feraz Zeid, November 2, 2023December 26, 2023, Lady Violet, 0 - Lady Violet Author · England
+ Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Lady Violet, Stories, 0 - Lady Violet Author · England
+ Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike. Feraz Zeid, June 13, 2023December 12, 2023, Lady Violet, Dangerous, Love, Motive, 0 - Lady Violet Author · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France