Ernst Lubitsch Quotes (2024)

I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.

Ernst Lubitsch

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

Ernst Lubitsch

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

Ernst Lubitsch

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

Ernst Lubitsch

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

Ernst Lubitsch

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

Ernst Lubitsch

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

Ernst Lubitsch

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Emanuel Celler

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Guru Nanak

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

John Burns

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Linda Evans

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

John Adams

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Judy Biggert

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

Gregorio M. Sierra

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

Celeste Holm

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Queen Victoria

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Edward W. Howe

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Thomas Browne

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Arnold Rothstein

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Virgil

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

George Sand

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Leonard Bacon

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

Barry Humphries

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

Don Van Vliet

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Thomas Malthus

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

Dorothy Stratten

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Ray Charles

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Socrates

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Henry Ford

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Plutarch

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

J. B. Priestley

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

John Webster

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Charles Baudelaire

You was a good man, and did good things.

Thomas Hardy

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

Albert Claude

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

Tycho Brahe

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Rod Steiger

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Arthur Helps

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

Javier Perez de Cuellar

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Anzia Yezierska

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