Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Age
  • Father
  • Religion

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Nice
  • Criticism
  • Anger

• A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Together
  • Radio

• In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • She
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Fight
  • Sides
  • Hatred

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• We want to let our play be the judges.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Play
  • Judges

• Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Law

• I play golf - badly.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Play Golf

• I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Surprised
  • Quite

• Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Enemy
  • Thoughtful

• Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country
  • Devil

• No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Sky

• If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Real
  • Single

• Look, I've heard a lot of people talk about me, they say I'm like Marmite. They like me, or they don't like me.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • People

• With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.

  

  Lauren Ashley Carter
  • Done

• The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Different
  • Ideas
  • Politics

• Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Believe
  • Needs
  • Advantage

• A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Vice
  • Rent
  • Mishap

• Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Envy
  • Radical
  • Vocation

• I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis

  

  Albert Lee
  • Music
  • Different
  • Interest

• When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
  • Virtue
  • Envy
  • Vice