One way Quotes by Paul Bourget

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

— Paul Bourget

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

— Paul Bourget

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

— Paul Bourget

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

— Paul Bourget

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

— Paul Bourget

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

— Paul Bourget

It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next…

— Paul Bourget

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense…

— Paul Bourget

“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for those who…

— Paul Bourget

“Il faut vivre comme on pense, sans quoi l'on finira par penser comme on a vécu.”

— Paul Bourget

“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.”

— Paul Bourget

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

— Paul Bourget