« All Caprice Quotes
·
Marquis de Sade's Page
Caprice Quotes by Marquis de Sade
1 Caprice quote by Marquis de Sade
More Quotes by Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade has 138 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
-
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
-
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the…
-
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
-
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
-
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
-
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
-
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and…
-
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous…
-
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction…
-
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those…
-
Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
See all 138 quotes by Marquis de Sade »
More Caprice Quotes
Popular Caprice quotes from across the collection:
-
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
— Max Eastman
-
Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
— Jean de la Bruyere
-
How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
— William Shakespeare
-
Idleness induces caprice.
— James Russell Lowell
-
One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some…
— Samuel Smiles
-
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
-
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions…
— William Hazlitt
-
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
-
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
— Jules Michelet
-
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck…
— Charlotte Bronte
-
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all…
— James Madison
See all Caprice Quotes »
Browse Marquis de Sade Quotes by Category