Rochefoucauld Quotes
6 quotes by 6 authors
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Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then…
— Moss Hart
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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
— Lytton Strachey
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of…
— Bill Vaughan
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A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."…
— Karen White
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Who Wrote These Rochefoucauld Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 6 Rochefoucauld Quotes as follows: