Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

Quotes to Explore
-
To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
-
I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
-
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
-
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
-
On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
-
I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
-
If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
-
I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
-
There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
-
What's my favourite food? One you order out.
-
Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
-
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
-
I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
-
There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
-
As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
-
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
-
Die nächste Flut verwischt den Weg im Watt, und alles wird auf allen Seiten gleich; die kleine Insel draußen aber hat die Augen zu; verwirrend kreist der Deichum ihre Wohner, die in einem Schlaf geboren werden, drin sie viele Welten verwechseln schweigend, denn sie reden selten, und jeder Satz ist wie ein Epitaph
-
The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.
-
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
-
I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
-
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. I didn't show up there to please anyone. After I was accepted, I wrote, 'The Audition's Over' and put it on the door of my dorm.
-
We are all winners here.
-
Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.