30 quotes found
“Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!”
“Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.”
“They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.”
“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”
“Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy f”
“Fools – in other words most people – imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to recover our youth; but those who know life are aware how little it would profit us. ("A Woman's V...”
“I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”
“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.”
“We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.”