Charles de Montesquieu Quotes

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Charles de Montesquieu

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Would
  • Put
  • Spiteful

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • My Life

• Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Friends
  • High

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Human
  • View

• I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Conflict

• Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Good
  • Want

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Science

• So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • You
  • Waiting
  • Years

• I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Know

• If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • End
  • Hands
  • Him

• In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Opinion
  • Goal
  • Humble

• Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Fall
  • Football
  • Easy

• I really think the biggest honor, as a comic, is to get roasted by either the Friars Club or the Comedy Central or someone like that. Because it really shows, you know, that you've arrived.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Comedy
  • Honor

• I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

  

  Sally Field
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Wise

• I taught world history. I understand there was an Ice Age... seasons come and seasons go. I do not believe the world's going to end because of the 2 percent man-made greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. And even if it were, we're not going to stop it.

  

  John Shimkus
  • World
  • Believe
  • History

• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • World
  • Wise
  • Fool