70 quotes found
“There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere shawls for their wives, as they go up the staircase of a theatre, or think of going to the Bouffon...”
“A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything bu...”
“We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.”
“We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience”
“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were prin...”
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
“The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.”
“Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.”
“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
“Paris that eternal monstrous marvel the city of a hundred-thousand novels a living creature, the great courtesan whose face and heart and mind-boggling morals they know: They are the lovers of Pa...”
