Top 33 Beuve Quotes
#1. When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. - CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE
Eleanor Herman
#2. The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#4. for I was already feeling that a malignant demon was stirring within me,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#5. Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#6. My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
Rory Bremner
#7. A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.
Judith McNaught
#8. Influence is having people follow you because of what you represent,
Paul Larsen
#10. If all my royal kindred
Lay in my way unto this marriage,
I'ld make them my low foot-steps
John Webster
#12. Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.
Tina Brown
#13. Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.
Robert M. Lindner
#14. For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#17. If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#19. I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.
Jason Mraz
#20. People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.
Laozi
#23. I wonder often if they survived, and if they are still in North Korea. There were so many desperate people on the streets crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while you can't care anymore. And that is what hell is like. Almost
Yeonmi Park
#25. A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#26. Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#28. Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#29. Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#30. I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.
Reggie Watts
#31. DONOVAN: Journey... wouldn't sleep with a guy to make people happy.
Bijou Hunter
#32. Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.
David Hume
