Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!
To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.
Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.
There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.