Quotes about Culture
Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a literary salon; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the literary to frequent it.
- Edith Wharton
Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners.
- Edmund Burke
Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols.
- Edward Welch
But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.
- Edward Welch
Why do you think Adam and Eve were concerned about uncovered genitals, but not bare arms, legs, noses, or ears?
- Edward Welch
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
- Albert Camus
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, in solid cash, the tribute which Philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
- Aldous Huxley
Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance.
- Shonda Rhimes
Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves.
- Julie Andrews
I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.
- Toni Collette
Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
- Patrick Lencioni
What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.
- Barun Sobti