All Jules de Goncourt Quotes
- Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females. Female
- There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to… Afflicts
- Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets… Art
- That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. Hears
- A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided… Activity
- After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,… Allan
- Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. Antiquity
- The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty… Accept
- There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. Baseness
- History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place. Fiction
- A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which… Afforded
- Time cures one of everything-even of living. Cures
- When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion. Becomes