Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Nature, Humor, Independent

• Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Thinking, Water, Rose

• Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Death, Sleep, Relief

  'Maximes et Pensèes' (1796) ch. 2

• Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Real, Everyday, Literature

• Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  People, Literature, Fame

• Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Women, Thinking, Evil

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

• One must not hope to be more than one can be.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Acceptance, Literature

• Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Fashion, Vanity, Literature

• 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.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Art, Successful, Bored

• Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Literature, May

• Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Oysters, Literature

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Art, Secret, Literature

• Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Scandal, Return, Movement

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