Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Quotes
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
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Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.