"What would there be in a story of……" — Andre Gide
"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
More Destroys Quotes
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
- The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as… — Saint Basil
- It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his… — David Bowie
- This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. — Sitting Bull
- Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. — Leo Buscaglia
- Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking… — Raymond Chandler
- The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the… — Hugo Chavez
- Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. — John Cleese
- We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. — Seneca the Younger
- It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton