Famous quotes containing the words banquet and/or scene:
“Another said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 14:20.
Jesus, recounting banquet excuses.
“This fantastic state of mind, of a humanity that has outrun its ideas, is matched by a political scene in the grotesque style, with Salvation Army methods, hallelujahs and bell-ringing and dervishlike repetition of monotonous catchwords, until everybody foams at the mouth. Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstacy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses, a proletarian eschatology; and reason veils her face.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)