Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Methods are the masters of masters.
Nothing succeeds so well as success.
Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.
It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.
Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.
What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.
It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.
Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.