People quotes
Anonymous
If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.
Armstrong Louis 1901-1971
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell ‘em.
The Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 100 v.1
Be ye sure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Bradley F. H. 1846-1924
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
Brooks Mel
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities,
personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Bruyere Jean de la 1645-1696
Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle
The people have little intelligence, the great no heart ... if I had to choose I should have no hesitation: I would be of the people.
Burke Edmund 1729-1797
On Conciliation with America
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
Burke Edmund 1729-1797
The people are the masters.
Burns George 1896-1996
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Chesterton G. K. 1874-1936
‘The Secret People'
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget.
For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
Compton-Burnett Dame Ivy 1884-1969
A Family and a Fortune
Well, of course, people are only human ... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
Coward Noёl 1899-1973
(attributed - of the retreat from Dunkirk)
The noise, my dear! And the people!
Davies Robertson 1913-1995
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
Sybil
I was told that the Priviledged and the People formed Two Nations.
Duncan Sara Jeannette
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
Eliot George 1819-1880
You must either give people what they are used to, or what they don't understand.
Eliot T. S. 1888-1965
You have now learned to see
That cats are much like you and me
And other people whom we find
Possessed of various types of mind.
Eliot T. S. 1888-1965
The Rock
And the wind shall say: ‘Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.'
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Gide André 1869-1951
The world will be saved by one or two people.
Gilman Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935
The people work with best are often very queer.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
Hammerstein II Oscar 1895-1960
South Pacific
You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
Of people whose skin is a different shade.
You've got to be carefully taught.
Herold Don
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Holt John
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
Howe Edgar Watson
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Hurok Sol 1888-1974
When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
Few people know how to be old.
Lamb Charles 1775-1834
The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself;
the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.
Landers Ann
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Larkin Philip 1922-1985
‘The Old Fools'
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.
Le Gallienne Richard 1866-1947
‘The Cry of the Little Peoples'
The cry of the Little People goes up to God in vain,
For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.
Leavitt Robert Keith
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
Lennon John 1940-1980
‘Imagine'
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
Living for today.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
(attributed)
You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people,
by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
(judgement of a book)
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most
valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Machiavelli Niccolo 1469-1527
The Prince
Let on one oppose this belief of mine with that well-worn proverb: ‘He who builds on the people builds on mud.'
Masson Tom
'Be yourself!'is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Mitchell Adrian 1932-
Poems
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Moses Grandma 1860-1961
I paint from the top down. First the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
Mottoes and Slogans
(slogan, Black Panther movement)
Power to the people.
Mumford Ethel Watts
O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.
Needham Richard J.
People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.
Page William Tyler 1868-1942
American's Creed
A government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
Imitations of Horace
The people's voice is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Pound Ezra 1885-1972
‘Mr Housman's Message'
O woe, woe,
People are born and die,
We also shall be dead pretty soon
Therefore let us act as if we were dead already.
Proust Marcel 1871-1922
Sioux
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
Renan Ernest 1823-1892
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
Sartre Jean-Paul 1905-1980
Huis Clos
Hell is other people.
Scott Robert 1868-1912
(last journal entry)
For God's sake look after our people.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Coriolanus
What is the city but the people?
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
John Bull's Other Island
There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency,
and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
Short Clare 1946-
I fear I will carry on irritating some people because some people are very irritable.
Sigourney Lydia 1791-1865
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation,
is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.
Simon Paul 1942-
‘Sound of Silence'
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening ...
‘Fools,' said I, ‘You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.'
Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Webster Daniel 1782-1852
The people's government, made for the people, made
by the people, and answerable to the people.
Weldon Fay
Hell is not other people, hell is no other people.
Wesley John 1703-1791
Sermons on Several Occasions
I design plain truth for plain people.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
Sebastian Melmoth „The Soul of Man ..."
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Yevtushenko Yevgeny
‘No People are Uninteresting'
No people are uninteresting.
Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.
Nothing in them is not particular,
and planet is dissimilar from planet.