#Book Quotes #Valuable Quotes #Quotations Quotes
“Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?”
Vicesimus Knox
“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”
Vicesimus Knox
“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.”
Vicesimus Knox
Source : Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.119, New York Review of Books
“the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.”
Vicesimus Knox
Source : Vicki Baum (1964). “It was all quite different: the memoirs of Vicki Baum”
“when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.”
Vicesimus Knox
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