(26 quotes found)
“Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
“Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.”
“How many fools does it take to make up a public?”
“Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.”
“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”
“The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”
“Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.”
“Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.”
“Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.”
“Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.”
