Alain-Rene Lesage Quotes

• Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Knowledge, Doubt

  5 Copy quote

• I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Thinking, Contentment, Easy

  Alain René Lesage (18??). “Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Le Sage”

  9 Copy quote

• The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Inspirational, Running, Soul

  10 Copy quote

• The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Women, Passion, Talking

  Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.549, The Floating Press

  9 Copy quote

• Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Taken, Giving, Enthusiasm

  10 Copy quote

• Evil tongues never want a whet.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Talking, Evil, Want

  Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.198, The Floating Press

  7 Copy quote

• Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Pride, Men, Sin

  "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VII, Chapter 3, 1735.

  9 Copy quote

• It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Memories, Shining, May

  Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.263, The Floating Press

  7 Copy quote

• A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Risk, Great Person, Flatterer

  "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book IV, Chapter 7, 1735.

  6 Copy quote

• Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Rivers, Contentment, Sides

  Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.983, The Floating Press

  6 Copy quote

• Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Expression, Greek, Devil

  "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VIII, Chapter 9, 1735.

  7 Copy quote

• Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Justice, Pay, Fine Things

  1707 Crispin rival de son ma|"tre, pt.9.

  6 Copy quote

• On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Memories, Son, Shining

  7 Copy quote

• Plain as a pike-staff.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Staff

  Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.910, The Floating Press

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin