La Motte - People

Famous quotes containing the word people:

“If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.”
—Edwin Landseer (1802–1873)

“Gold has a price, but people are priceless.”
—Chinese proverb.

“When over Catholics the ocean rolls,
They must wait several weeks before a mass
Takes off one peck of purgatorial coals,
Because, till people know what’s come to pass,
They won’t lay out their money on the dead—
It costs three francs for every mass that’s said.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)