Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL 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 Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
MADAME DE STAEL Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...
MADAME DE STAEL A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
MADAME DE STAEL Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one pr...
MADAME DE STAEL To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
MADAME DE STAEL Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things ...
MADAME DE STAEL Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
MADAME DE STAEL Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
MADAME DE STAEL The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it...
MADAME DE STAEL Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the check...
MADAME DE STAEL We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAEL One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
MADAME DE STAEL Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
MADAME DE STAEL In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
MADAME DE STAEL When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of...
MADAME DE STAEL A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
MADAME DE STAEL The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
MADAME DE STAEL The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAEL The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
MADAME DE STAEL I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the ...
MADAME DE RIEUX There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes ...
MADAME DE MAINTENON Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
MADAME DE RIEUX The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeki...
MADAME DE LAMBERT Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
MADAME DE GIRARDIN The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
MADAME DE MAINTENON Instinct is the nose of the mind.
MADAME DE GIRARDIN We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
MADAME DE STAEL The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
MADAME DE STAEL The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
MADAME DE STA Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.
MADAME DE STAEL Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts
MADAME DE STAEL Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repa...
MADAME DE TENCIN Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between thing...
MADAME DE STAEL The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes
MADAME DE STAEL Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks th...
MADAME DE STAEL One must chose in life between boredom and suffering
MADAME DE STAEL Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays,...
MADAME DE STAEL A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn
MADAME DE STAEL One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering
MADAME DE STAEL In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable
MADAME DE STAEL To understand everything makes one very indulgent
MADAME DE STAEL A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STA‘L The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seek...
MADAME DE LAMBERT Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, ...
MADAME DE STAEL Nothing is more adroit than irreproachable conduct
MADAME DE MAINTENON The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action
MADAME DE STAEL Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
MADAME DE STAEL The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies G...
MADAME DE STAEL Do you belong to anyone?" he asked.
"No," she whispered.
"Good, because tonight, you belon...
MADAME DE BOUDOIR Perseverance and audacity generally win.
MADAME DOROTHéE DE LUZY The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one i...
MADAME SWETCHINE The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
MADAME SWETCHINE How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
MADAME SWETCHINE Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
MADAME NECKAR There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the la...
MADAME SWETCHINE We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.
MADAME SWETCHINE In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
MADAME SWETCHINE We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
MADAME SWETCHINE One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted b...
MADAME SWETCHINE Repentance is accepted remorse.
MADAME SWETCHINE Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.
MADAME BELAZY To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
MADAME NECKAR Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.
MADAME DUDEVANT Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to othe...
MADAME GUIZOT We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
MADAME SWETCHINE It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed...
MADAME GUIZOT We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
MADAME SWETCHINE Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
MADAME SWETCHINE Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
MADAME SWETCHINE Youth should be a savings bank.
MADAME SWETCHINE Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand...
MADAME SWETSHINE We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. -...
MADAME SWETCHINE The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
MADAME NECKER Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy
MADAME BELAZY He who finds elevated and lofty pleasure in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he never co...
MADAME DUDEVANT We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STAËL We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY One crime is everything, two is nothing.
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY Perseverance and audacity generally win!
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
MADAME DOROTHéE DELUZY You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us m...
MADAME MARIE CURIE All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
MADAME MARIE CURIE It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
MADAME DOROTHéE DELUZY We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?.
MADAME DOROTHé DELUZY It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend
MADAME DOROTHEE DELUZY There is one antidote only for coquetry, and that is true love
MADAME DOROTHEE DELUZY A coquette is a woman without any heart, who makes a fool of a man that hasn't got any head
MADAME DOROTHEE DELUZY A happy accident.
MADAME DE STAEL (BARONNE ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL-HOLSTEIN) Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
MADAME DE STAEL (BARONNE ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL-HOLSTEIN) Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice...
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary s...
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK We write our own destiny; we become what we do.
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. ...
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays...
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK The distance is nothing it is only the first step that costs
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il...
MADAME MARIE ANNE DU DEFFAND What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l...
MADAME MARIE ANNE DU DEFFAND It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. -Madame Dorothée Deluzy.
MADAME DOROTHÉE DELUZY 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 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