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Bates, Katherine Lee
1859–1929
1859–1929
1
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
"America the Beautiful" (1893)
Baudelaire, Charles
1821–67
1821–67
1
Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère.
Hypocrite reader—my likeness—my brother.
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Everything there is simply order and beauty, luxury, peace and sensual indulgence.
Quelle est cette île triste et noire? C'est Cythère,
Nous dit-on, un pays fameux dans les chansons,
Eldorado banal de tous les vieux garçons.
Regardez, après tout, c'est un pauvre terre.
What sad, black isle is that? It's Cythera, so they say, a land celebrated in song, the banal Eldorado of all the old fools. Look, after all, it's a land of poverty.
Il faut épater le bourgeois.One must astonish the bourgeois.
Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère.
Hypocrite reader—my likeness—my brother.
Les fleurs du mal
(1857) "Au Lecteur"
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Everything there is simply order and beauty, luxury, peace and sensual indulgence.
Les fleurs du mal
(1857) "L'Invitation au voyage"—"Spleen et idéal" no. 56
Quelle est cette île triste et noire? C'est Cythère,
Nous dit-on, un pays fameux dans les chansons,
Eldorado banal de tous les vieux garçons.
Regardez, après tout, c'est un pauvre terre.
What sad, black isle is that? It's Cythera, so they say, a land celebrated in song, the banal Eldorado of all the old fools. Look, after all, it's a land of poverty.
Les fleurs du mal
(1857) "Un voyage à Cythère"—"Les fleurs du mal" no. 121
Il faut épater le bourgeois.One must astonish the bourgeois.
attributed; also attributed to Privat d'Anglemont (
c.
1820–59) in the form "
Je les ai épatés, les bourgeois
[I flabbergasted them, the bourgeois]"
Baum, L. Frank
1856–1919
1856–1919
1
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
(1900) ch. 2.
Beatty, David
1871–1936
1871–1936
1
There's something wrong with our bloody ships today.
at the Battle of Jutland, 1916
There's something wrong with our bloody ships today.
at the Battle of Jutland, 1916
Winston Churchill
The World Crisis 1916–1918
(1927) pt. 1
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
1732–99
1732–99
1
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius!…You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
Le Mariage de Figaro
(1785) act 2, sc. 21
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius!…You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Le Mariage de Figaro
(1785) act 5, sc. 3
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