Peasants Quotes

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

Turkey's true master is the peasant.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

Basically the French are all peasants.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

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!'

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

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.

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.

Reasons are for peasants.

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution,
but one of the extreme Right.

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

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.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants!