Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
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False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
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Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
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Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.
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Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
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High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.
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It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.
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It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
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Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
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There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
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The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.
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What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.
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False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
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Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
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He who has lived a day has lived an age.
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Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.
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As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
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He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
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When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.
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If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
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Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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