Bohemia Quotes - Page 2

• Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, Rocks, Soho

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

  John Amos Comenius

  Names, Glorify, Seeds

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• I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

  Bayard Taylor

  Country, Eye, Land

  Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.140

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• There would be no bohemia without smoking.

  David Hockney

  Smoking, Would Be, Habit

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• I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

  Camille Claudel

  Successful, Effort, Ordinary

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• Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

  Djuna Barnes

  Littles, Bohemian, Wells

  Djuna Barnes (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.69, Courier Dover Publications

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• Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.

  Laini Taylor

  Jewels, Cities, Southern

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.

  Ezra Hall Gillett

  Two, Church, Increase

  Ezra Hall Gillett (1864). “The Life and Times of John Huss: Or, The Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century”, p.570

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• I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Land

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1886). “In Bohemia”

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