3,162 Quotes About Culture

Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?

There are big culture issues in these films, contemporaneous issues, and he's about as issue-oriented as a host can be.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.