Quotes of: Peasant Keyword

The Witch: I'm not a witch, I'm not a witch! Sir Bedevere: But you are dressed as one! The Witch: *They* dressed me up like this! Crowd: We didn't! We didn't... The Witch: And this isn't my nose. It's a false one. Sir Bedevere: [lifts up her false no...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant girl than a peasant girl of a lady.

Dutch

In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maintaining that his approach to the peasantry was based on scientific Marxist class analysis, Lenin provided his successors with conce...

Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did....

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The noblemen's quarrels can be read on the backs of the peasants.

Russian

The peasant sweats and the nobleman is always right.

Russian

The Pope and a peasant know more than the Pope alone.

Montenegro

An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.

Dutch

The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder.

Russian

An upstanding peasant is bigger than a nobleman on his knees.

Swedish

Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campaign, according to Roy Medvedev

Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.

The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

John Dryden

A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Catalan

Invite a peasant to your table and he'll put his feet on it.

Russian

If the peasant doesn't hear the thunder he won't make the sign of the cross.

Russian

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Gertrude Stein

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest ma...

Robert A. Heinlein

I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.

The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

Mo Yan