A Quote by Toni Morrison

Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

Toni Morrison

Quote Topics

Event Gallant Just Life Livable Love Make Seems

Quote Author

Toni Morrison
American - Novelist
February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Pietro Aretino

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

Madame Roland

...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had danced here across centuries of spring evenings, gallant girls seeing gallant boys off to war, old men and women straight-backed while outside their world disintegrated and the new one battered at their doors, all of them bruised and all of them laughing, welcoming us into their long lineage.

Tana French

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Pietro Aretino

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

George Horace Lorimer

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

Criss Jami

Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.

Izaak Walton

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Wallis Simpson

A gallant man is above ill words.

John Selden

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

Duke of Wellington

I am a friend to any brave and gallant outlaw.

Belle Starr

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

Charles Caleb Colton

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.

Robert E. Lee

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.