Honore de Quotations

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.

If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence

Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only

To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage

A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

They must have the defects of their qualities.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.