Par Lagerkvist Quotes

“One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.”

“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human happiness. That they can never know and therefore they grudge it to men. Nothing makes them so evil and cruel as that men should presume to be happy and forget them for the sake of their earthly happiness.”

“Haw Par Villa is the nutty exception. It's mad, slightly unhinged and overwhelmingly rubbish. Without a doubt, Haw Par Villa is the Louis Tussaus House of Wax of Singapore. There is no higher compliment (...) For it's own sake, Haw Par Villa still had to be terrible, macabre, distasteful and offensive.”

“Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.”

“I love you" begins by I, but it ends up by you. ("Je t'aime" commence par Je, - Mais il finit par toi.)”

“The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes.)”

“Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.”

“Le vin est la gaieté, dit-on ; comment cet océan de vin qui submerge la commune de Bercy n’égaye-t-il pas un peu ces navrants paysages ? Tout Bacchus est là ; Bacchus, chanté avec tant de constance par nos poètes ébriolants. Bacchus ne peut-il rasséréner ces horizons en deuil ? ou faut-il croire que Bacchus lui-même, ennemi de l’eau, est incommodé par le voisinage de la rivière ?”

“We speak by the mouth ”

“Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Par”