Bohemia Quotes

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  • To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.

    Source: craphound.com
  • There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

  • Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

  • 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 (2016). “Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes”, p.69, Courier Dover Publications
  • We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

    Art   Reading   Museums  
  • The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Rocks   Soho  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

    Names   Glorify   Seeds  
  • Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

    Class   America   Alive  
    Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • 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.

    Two   Church   Increase  
    Ezra Hall Gillett (1864). “The Life and Times of John Huss: Or, The Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century”, p.570
  • Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

  • Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

    Country   Moving   Trying  
    O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.517, ShandonPress
  • I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

    Land   Bohemia  
    John Boyle O'Reilly (1886). “In Bohemia”
  • If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.

    Fear   Twilight   People  
  • If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.

    Liars   Lying   Past  
    "On Telling the Truth". William and Mary College Monthly, Volume VII (pp. 53-55), November 1897.
  • There would be no bohemia without smoking.

  • You see, but you do not observe.

    "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)
  • Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.

    Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.24, Hachette UK
  • As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

    Romantic   Kids   Math  
  • My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

    Dream   Sweet   Guy  
  • Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

    Love   Hair   Long  
    Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.68, PM Press
  • It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

    "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)
  • It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

    The New York Journal-American, December 8, 1960.
  • I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.

  • Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  • I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

    Girl   Good Day   One Day  
  • Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

    Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.49, New Directions Publishing
  • 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.

    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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