Nicolas Chamfort Art Quotations

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

Satire is the disease of art.

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.