“Monk enters the studio and starts playing, the rest of the musicians join him. After few minutes of play the technician from his room shouts and stops the band. ]
Monk: "Why did we stop?"
Technician: "I thought you were rehearsing."
Monk: "Aren't we always?"”
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Napoleon I of France
(1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Conversation at Turin, as quoted in Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788 - 1815) as translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie (1881), Vol. II, p. 113
'Monk' refers to George Monck, military ruler of Puritan England after Cromwell, who ultimately gave up power when he invited Charles II in and enabled the English Restoration
Context: I do not care to play the part of Monk; I will not play it myself, and I do not choose that others shall do so. But those Paris lawyers who have got into the Directory understand nothing of government. They are poor creatures. I am going to see what they want to do at Rastadt; but I doubt much that we shall understand each other, or long agree together. They are jealous of me, I know, and notwithstanding all their flattery, I am not their dupe; they fear more than they love me. They were in a great hurry to make me General of the army of England, so that they might get me out of Italy, where I am the master, and am more of a sovereign than commander of an army. They will see how things go on when I am not there. I am leaving Berthier, but he is not fit for the chief command, and, I predict, will only make blunders. As for myself, my dear Miot, I may inform you, I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. I have made up my mind, if I cannot be master I shall leave France; I do not choose to have done so much for her and then hand her over to lawyers.
“A monk's first concern, night and day, should be not to hurt or trouble his brother monks.”
Saint Nimatullah Kassab
(1808–1858) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint
“The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,—the devil a monk was he.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 24.
“I felt like poisoning a monk.”
Umberto Eco
(1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose (1980)
“123. Happy is the monk who considers all men as god — after God.”
Evagrius Ponticus
(345–399) Christian monk
Chapters on Prayer
Umberto Eco
(1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Quoted in Myriem Bouzaher's introduction to the French version of The Name of the Rose, Postille al Nome della Rosa, Page 18 (1985)
“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”
John Lydgate
(1370–1450) monk and poet
Joseph Ritson Bibliographia Poetica (1802) p. 87.
Criticism