Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image ““451.—No fools so wearisome as those who have some wit. 452.—No”” — François de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.” — Kenneth McLeish Copy Share Image
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“Who would ever want to read a novel about a punk and a drunk! Everybody knew a couple or a dozen; they were not to be taken seriously; nuisances and trouble-makers, nothing more; like queers and fairies, people were bell-sick of them; whatever ailed them, that was their funeral; who cared? - life presented a thousand things more important to… — Charles Jackson Copy Share
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“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer… — Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Copy Share Image
“But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean sea breeze… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
