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Who's that? That's the King. Who's he? The Duke. Who's she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm"¦how about the Peasant? And the name stuck. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better. Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway! -- Graham Chapman
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around. -- Dorothy Stang
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Give me a few minutes." "You have time." He sat in the grass. "Are you just going to sit there and watch me?" "Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best." "Peasant?" He shrugged. "You started the name calling. -- Ilona Andrews
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant. -- Milla Jovovich
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor. -- Henry David Thoreau
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. -- F. Sionil Jose
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. -- Woodrow Wilson
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? -- James Earl Jones
To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture. -- Jakaya Kikwete
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. -- John Updike
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right. -- Salvador Dali
I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste. -- Mayim Bialik
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. -- Al Lewis
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. -- Henry IV
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there. -- Herman Gorter
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded. -- Howard K. Smith
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -- Plato
I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too. -- Lee Trevino
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle. -- Richard Dawkins
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food. -- Alton Brown
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. -- Eli Broad
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. -- Nikolai Gogol
I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now never in Russia; I am Austrian citizen. But definitely I am Latin! -- Anna Netrebko
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
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. -- Luigi Barzini
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. -- John Berger
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food. -- Adam Carolla
There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable. -- Sebastian Faulks
Turkey's true master is the peasant. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge! -- William Shakespeare
I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food. -- Raymond Kelly
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. -- Walter Mosley
Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal. -- Wallace Stevens
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. -- Anton Chekhov
I am only a peasant by position, not by nature! -- Thomas Hardy
The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman. -- H. P. Lovecraft
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty! -- Scott Disick
One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant. -- John Lancaster Spalding
The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. -- Henry IV of France
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor. -- Nelson Mandela
The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating. -- Emile Zola
The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman -- Louis Pasteur
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant. -- Miguel de Cervantes
A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence. -- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together. -- Dan Buettner
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon. -- Saddam Hussein
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well? -- Nicolas Chamfort
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. -- Mao Zedong
There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant. -- Confucius
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. -- Confucius
The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. -- Jules Renard
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. -- Giuseppe Verdi
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation. -- Vladimir Lenin
The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. -- William Butler Yeats
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. -- C. S. Forester
Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side. -- Martin Luther
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel. -- George Eliot
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. -- James Joyce
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now. -- Pierre Laval
... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. -- Bayard Taylor
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night? -- Graham Greene
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees. -- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant. -- Garrison Keillor
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife. -- Louis Pasteur
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. -- John Milton
In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
I really don't feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual. -- Ermanno Olmi
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man. -- Adolf Hitler
In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting. -- Craig Raine
I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart? -- Oliver Goldsmith
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields -- Saddam Hussein
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields. -- John Green
The French peasant cuisine is at the basis of the culinary art. By this I mean it is composed of honest elements that la grande cuisine only embellishes -- Alexandre Dumaine
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. -- Ai Weiwei
Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thousand men. -- Yoshida Shoin
I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!' -- Robin Williams
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday. -- Henry IV of France
I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual. -- Tom Jaine
Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow? -- Benjamin Butler
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. -- Terry Pratchett
The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! -- James Finn Garner
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality -- Clifford Sifton
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time. -- Anwar Sadat
In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists. -- Wendell Berry
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems. -- W. H. Auden
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death. -- Horace Mann
We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant. -- C. S. Lewis
Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king. -- Thomas Hardy

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