Bourget Quotes

#1. About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.

Charles Lindbergh

#2. Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the
sinful.

Paul Bourget

#3. There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Paul Bourget

#4. Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I
had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy
for those who have triumphed in the melancholy
struggle for literary supremacy

Paul Bourget

#5. Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Paul Bourget

#7. Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.

Paul Bourget

#8. Tomorrow, said the voice of fear in her head. It always said, tomorrow, whether it talked about going to the grocery store or starting a new painting. Tomorrow you'll be brave, fear whispered. Tomorrow you'll be normal. Just give me today. That was how fear stole whole lives away.

Dana Marton

#9. At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the
tone in which they are uttered.

Paul Bourget

#10. May ya have the hindsight ta know where you've been, the foresight ta know where where you're going, and the insight ta know when you're going too far...

Shirley Bourget

#11. It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's
youthful ideals.

Paul Bourget

#12. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Paul Bourget

#13. There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Paul Bourget

#14. There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

Paul Bourget

#15. I decided I should go after the roles I like, that I am inspired by, and then, if I am having a good time, chances are that people will like watching you.

James Marsden

#16. If one flower has to grow out of all the weeds, let that flower be YOU.

Margaret Aranda

#17. Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

Hans Selye

#18. Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

Paul Bourget

#19. A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.

Andre Courreges

#20. People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

Lauren London

#21. We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

Paul Bourget

#22. I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

Paul Bourget

#23. No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

George Eliot

#24. The forests have taught man liberty.

Paul Bourget

#25. There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Paul Bourget

#26. Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

Dylan Moran

#27. The train stops at the signal as usual. I can see Jess standing on the patio in front of the French doors. She's wearing a bright print dress, her feet are bare.

Paula Hawkins

#28. There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?

Paul Bourget

#29. supervise the gardener who had taken over from him. She was very fond of Harry,

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#30. The pilgrims and the lost often did look the same,

Paula McLain

#31. A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Paul Bourget

#32. Baine was controlling her passion, curbing it from a destructive wild-natured thing, to something beautiful and wonderful. For the countless time since his arrival, Ivy found herself not caring about anything else. All she wanted was for the mouth dance to continue. Forever.

Shirley Bourget

#33. There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

Paul Bourget

#34. Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

Paul Bourget