Vicomte De Chateaubriand quote: "Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself."

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be...
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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unit...
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Ha...
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You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
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One does not learn how to die by killing others.
VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND

ô enfance du coeur humain qui ne vieillit jamais! voilà donc à quel degré de puérilité notre s...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor an...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND

Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du d�...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she...
FRANçOIS R. CHATEAUBRIAND

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among thos...
FRANçOIS R. CHATEAUBRIAND

One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light
FRANçOIS R. CHATEAUBRIAND

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is o...
FRAN&CCEDIL;OIS-REN&EACUTE; DE CHATEAUBRIAND

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

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

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the m...
LUC DE CLAPIERS

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES DE MILLE

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY

I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an ene...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely sm...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That au...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless ho...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STAEL

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
MADAME DE STAEL

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
MADAME DE STAEL

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

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