Ennui Quote by Ninon de L'Enclos Download Open image “Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.” — Ninon de L'Enclos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ennui Expensive Parent Parenting Vices
“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“Ambition...the original of vices; Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. — Horace Copy Share Image
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life. — Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Copy Share Image
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind… — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
