"I assure you that the world is not……" — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
"I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined."
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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24 Quotes by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos has 24 quotes on this site.
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Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
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La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid
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One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
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Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
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Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred…
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Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in…
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I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that…
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Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The…
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When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
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A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.
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Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
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It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being…
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More Amusing Quotes
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I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
— David Bailey
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
— Arnold Bennett
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
— Aesop
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an…
— Thomas Carlyle
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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