Courtesans Quote by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Download Open image “Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.” — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Courtesans Opinion Please Popularity Public opinion Without Respect
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
“Sweat ran along every part of her body, but she tipped her head back, arms upraised, content to bask in the music. One of… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick …… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and… — Polly Adler Copy Share Image
“But for most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
