Best Lebanese Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you want to judge if a party is a Lebanese enough, let me say we take up arms and fight against the occupation of our land, is that Lebanese enough?”

Iran Occupation Zionism Hezbollah Lebanese Libanon

Book:Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

Source: Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

“The Lebanese banking system helps Iran, Syria & Hezbollah evade sanctions.”

Banking Lebanese

Book:Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role

Source: Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role

“Buddy I have lived through three wars and several major political skirmishes. You can't beat me down with your boring-to-death sales pitches.”

Humor Funny Humour Humorous Lebanon Lebanese

Book:Beirut to the 'burbs

Source: Beirut to the 'burbs

“The first time someone suggested that I write about my adventures was when I had just arrived in Lebanon. He looked at me with sincere curiosity, puzzled too. We were seated in a large kitchen at a friend’s house, having lunch. It was a beautiful yellow brick house, on top of a hill, very bright, the garden in bloom, wonderful colors and my story of poverty and gloom in Kosovo couldn’t be a greater contrast. We drank lovely Lebanese white wine, ate warm flatbread with labneh, foul, sujuk, and plenty of other mezze dishes.”

Adventure Eating Mobile Phones Telecommunications Lebanese

Book:Your phone, my life: Or, how did that phone land in your hand?

Source: Your phone, my life: Or, how did that phone land in your hand?

“Breakfast in a rather dingy hotel room, near the Roman ruins of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. There are bowls of yoghurt; blue-and-white jugs of fresh mint, a basket of dimpled sheets of warm flatbread folded like delicate manuscripts, and pots of honey and fig jam. A lone brick of stale Madeira cake sits on an oval white plate. It is labelled 'English.”

Breakfast Lebanese

Book:A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

“I am fine and of course I am lying remember I am Lebanese or nod ask how everyone I know is doing don’t you see that far away country my mother bursts into tears the front door resilient smoke dust the rubble has become blanket and bed warm like mine the fire is blazing the flag burnt flesh on a phone screen the demolition of war what is the definition fleeing their homes they are dying they are not crying out for help lend a hand hold a heart for being arab I am not brave”

War Death Poetry Poem Destruction Lebanon Ruin Lebanese

Author:Maha Hashwi

“My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.”

Years Mother Father Born Mexico Lebanese

Author:Carlos Slim

“My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.”

Three Half Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Quarters Lebanese

Author:Tom Shadyac

“Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.”

People Reason Gone Mad Israel Holocaust Palestinian Attacking Lebanese

Author:Hugo Chavez

“It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation.”

Speech Labels Remarkable This Day Flags Constructs Nationality Anthem National Anthem Designation Lebanese

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It's a lie, as we all knew.”

War Problem Lying Response Owners Nuts No Problem Request Lebanese Pistachios

Author:Robert Fisk

“Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.”

Long Speech Authority Freedom Of Speech Lebanese

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.”

“God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.”

World Wells Looks Rights Stage Willing Built Bases Soil Territory Palestinian Lebanese

Author:King Hussein I

“There's this Lebanese lady I dearly loved who raised 13 children in Toledo, and she retired in Phoenix. She said, I get up every morning and say, Thank you, God. I do the same thing now.”

Children Said Morning Raised Get Up Every Morning Retired Phoenix Saying Thank You Thank You God Lebanese Toledo

Author:Jamie Farr

“The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap plastic sandals. But a videotape released before September 11, which I saw on Lebanese television, had him in a gold embroidered robe. When I saw this, I thought, whoa, has this guy changed? I wouldn't have imagined him ever appearing in such golden robes when I met him.”

Guy Simple White Saws Changed Television Mets Gold Golden Plastic September This Guy Bin Laden September 11 Appearing Saudis Robes Sandals Lebanese

Author:Robert Fisk

“Even my landlord, who is a moderate Lebanese guy, says, "But bin Laden says what we think." These people believe that bin Laden is being targeted not because of the World Trade Center and Washington; they are not convinced by the evidence that has been produced. They believe he's being targeted because he tells the truth.”

People Thinking World Believe Has Beens Guy Evidence Trade Convinced Telling The Truth Moderates Bin Laden World Trade Landlord World Trade Center Lebanese

Author:Robert Fisk

“For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.”

“"Parisienne" is about how you forge a life in a new place when you are 18. And it's about a Lebanese girl who discovers Paris and the French in the 90s, and through these encounters, discovers herself.”

Girl Paris Encounters New Places Lebanese

Author:Danielle Arbid

“I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.”

World Film Sentimental Lebanese

Author:Danielle Arbid

“Take a look at the Supreme Court decision that just authorized an effort by U.S. claimants against Iran for terrorist acts. What are the terrorist acts? The terrorist acts are bombings of U.S. military installations in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, which Iran is claimed to have something to do with. Well suppose they did. That's not terrorism. I mean if we have a military base in Lebanon that while we're shelling Lebanese naval ships, the Navy is shelling Lebanese installations and somebody attacks [that's not terrorism].”

“I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.”

War America Seeing Civil War Covered Prosperous Lebanese

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“There's the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of Indo-Pakistanis in East Africa, of Lebanese in West Africa, of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, and of the rich by the poor most everywhere. It's the same low-high derogation: They're cold, greedy, clannish - -but, dang, they're sure good at making money and you should go to one who is a doctor if you're seriously sick.”

“For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?”

Has Beens Sea Killing Israel Decades Palestinian Refugee Invasion Hostage Kidnapping Lebanon High Seas Lebanese Cyprus Palestinian Refugees

Author:Noam Chomsky

“All one needs to do is just to go to any hospital in America and see the number of Pakistani or Indian or Lebanese, or Syrian, or Egyptian doctors, who are either first generation or themselves immigrants, to know, and I'm a big believer - brains are distributed evenly around the world. What aren't distributed evenly are opportunities, stable government, educational institutions, etc.”

“I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.”

Looks Nice Summer Clothes My Friends Winter Experts Italian Pretending Professors Sophisticated Lebanese

Author:Alexei Sayle

“When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.”

Source: Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War

“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.”

“The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?”

Left Absolutes Victim Conviction Terrorist Certainty Officers Possessed Palestinian Worn Uniforms Israeli Absolute Certainty Lebanese

Author:Robert Fisk

“The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.”

People Want Government Situation Vision Satisfied New Government Time For A Change New Vision Lebanese

Author:Rafik Hariri

“The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.”

Trying Capable Ruling Lebanese

Author:Walid Jumblatt

“Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism of a line like ‘That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.’”

Firsts Stills Hard Moments Stars Lines Space Objects Poet Bounds Plenty Mysticism Cosmic Contemplating Enlightening Dwelling Lebanese Moralizing

Author:Khalil

“As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.”

Government Able Force Conditions Return Convinced Stability Homeland Lebanon Lebanese

Author:Bashar al-Assad