Top 100 Alphonse's Quotes
#1. As soon as I looked at Alphonse's face, I knew that he was dead. I had the strange feeling that I was dead myself. It felt as if I were lying at the bottom of a grave and earth was being thrown on me. When death takes someone you know, he holds you and whispers all his secrets in your ear.
Heather O'Neill
#3. Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#5. I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#7. There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#8. Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#10. Women's glances express what they dare not speak.
Alphonse Karr
#11. The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#12. There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,
that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
Alphonse Daudet
#13. Man is born barbarous
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#14. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#15. Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.
Alphonse Karr
#18. Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr
#20. Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#21. The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
Alphonse De Lamartine
#22. If the grandeur of the aim, the smallness of the means, the immensity of the result are the three measures of a man's genius, who would dare humanly compare a great man of modern history with Muhammad?
Alphonse De Lamartine
#23. Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#24. The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#25. I do not believe in any wise man until I have heard him say << I doubt it>> three times and << I don't know >> two times.
Alphonse Karr
#26. Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
Alphonse De Lamartine
#27. It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#28. Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#29. Humanity's advancement is founded on looking for new possibilities instead of being bound by general principles.
Hiromu Arakawa
#30. Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#32. Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just ...
Jean: A little brat who swears a lot
Maes: An arrogant pipsqueak
Roy: Useless. Just useless
Alphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that ...
Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!!
Hiromu Arakawa
#33. Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
Alphonse De Lamartine
#36. We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#37. But before that, before the farm went bad, Alphonse remembers being happy. He didn't know it was happiness and couldn't have put a name to it then - in fact he's pretty sure he never even thought about it - but now he knows that it was happiness.
Anita Shreve
#38. The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
Alphonse De Lamartine
#40. One expresses well only the love he does not feel.
Alphonse Karr
#43. In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells.
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
#45. Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#46. Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#47. If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#48. If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
Alphonse De Lamartine
#49. Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#50. Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#51. Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
Alphonse Daudet
#53. Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.
Alphonse Karr
#55. If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
Alphonse Karr
#58. There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#59. It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
Alphonse De Lamartine
#61. Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#63. Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#64. The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#66. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#69. Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me
Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#70. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#71. But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
Alphonse De Lamartine
#75. Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
Alphonse Karr
#76. Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.
Karen Chance
#79. Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
Alphonse Daudet
#80. A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
Alphonse Karr
#84. We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#86. Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#88. Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
Alphonse Karr
#91. Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Alphonse Karr
#93. France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#95. Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#96. Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#99. In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
#100. Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace ...
Alphonse De Lamartine
