Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
“[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a… — Edmond De Goncourt Copy Share
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
