The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, w...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it w...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfei...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the la...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the dec...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes con...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad pic...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness fir...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole a...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that on...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit co...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin
EDMOND DE GONCOURT a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that o...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad pic...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but ...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness fir...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes con...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the la...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel t...
GONCOURT Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel th...
GONCOURT If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
GONCOURT My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
EDMOND ROSTAND A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret t...
EDMOND ROSTAND The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
EDMOND ROSTAND Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
EDMOND HALLEY Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the...
EDMOND HALLEY But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way ...
EDMOND ABOUT It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun...
EDMOND ABOUT I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,...
EDMOND ABOUT I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.
EDMOND HARACOURT What would you have me do?
Search out some powerful patronage, and be
Like crawling ivy cl...
EDMOND ROSTAND A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the I in loving; Tis a secret told to the...
EDMOND ROSTAND At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of noth...
EDMOND ABOUT This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
EDMOND HALLEY A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, suc...
EDMOND ROSTAND A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
EDMOND ROSTAND Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.
EDMOND GWEEN My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, the...
EDMOND ROSTAND Every corner of the sky awkwardly showed up wearing the exact same thing, a moody gray dress accesso...
EDMOND MANNING A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise...
EDMOND ROSTAND And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamp...
EDMOND ROSTAND A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot p...
EDMOND ROSTAND My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists
EDMOND ROSTAND I earnestly wish them all imaginable success; in the first place that they may not, by the unseasona...
EDMOND HALLEY Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of ...
EDMOND JABèS very weak and very fragile ... he wasn't the same person that left Pennsylvania in March.
EDMOND POPE My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the on...
EDMOND ROSTAND He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, "Thank God.
EDMOND MANNING ...But...to sing,
to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,
with a voice that sti...
EDMOND ROSTAND A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
EDMOND ROSTAND A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot...
EDMOND ROSTAND He has not been mistreated, except by not having adequate medical care.
EDMOND POPE He appeared much weaker, physically and mentally, he is having a very difficult time and he appears ...
EDMOND POPE Maybe I'll kiss the ground, I don't know.
EDMOND POPE It's a long and complicated story that goes back 10 years and needs careful explaining,
EDMOND POPE I request this release to be as soon as possible as my father is terminally ill and I wish to visit ...
EDMOND POPE I'm encouraging him to go pro. The money is going to be there for him because I expect him to break ...
EDMOND DONALD The stars aligned well for me and Mike. He wanted to go somewhere that had the patience for him to d...
EDMOND DONALD It was a hard sale getting them here. I was instructed to get the program back in compliance and not...
EDMOND DONALD As a coach you always hope and dream that your athletes develop to become All-Americans. I knew he w...
EDMOND DONALD This was a testament to the hard work of these guys and where we want to take this track program.
EDMOND DONALD I'm anticipating another stellar season. These guys are older, wiser and hopefully better.
EDMOND DONALD You have to leave OPEC to worry about its own problems. We have a shared commitment to stabilize mar...
EDMOND DAUKORU If prices persist above the level of 60 we will definitively take that into account.
EDMOND DAUKORU Those arguing for a cut will have to defend their case and we will listen to each of them and reach ...
EDMOND DAUKORU Despite uncertainties on interest rates and oil prices during 2005, about 70 companies would be list...
EDMOND CHAN Despite uncertainties on interest rates and oil prices during 2005, about 70 companies would be list...
EDMOND CHAN About 70 companies were listed on the Hong Kong Main Board and Growth Enterprise Market (GEM).
EDMOND CHAN These results were contributed by the return of investors' interests on the equity market towards th...
EDMOND CHAN «No adoptes esa idea errónea de que todo extranjero, porque exhibe su diferencia, es incapaz de se...
EDMOND JABèS Attendez!... Je choisis mes rimes... Là, j'y suis.

(Il fait ce qu'il dit, à mesure.) EDMOND ROSTAND I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is i...
EDMOND ROSTAND Aristotle's o...
EDMOND HALLEY To boast wonder takes great courage. Being left speechless with joy is not for the weak. We f...
EDMOND MANNING Duck love is recognizable in any language.
EDMOND MANNING Cyrano: I can see him there---he grins---
He is looking at my nose---that skeleton
---What...
EDMOND ROSTAND It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has bee...
EDMOND H. FISCHER We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are bet...
EDMOND H. FISCHER I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in t...
EDMOND H. FISCHER Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE