Briffault Quotes

#1. The first parts of Europe 'to emerge from barbarism,' Briffault says, were those most directly under the influence of 'Moorish' culture: the Spanish Marches of Catalonia, Provence, and Sicily.

S.E. Al-Djazairi

#2. The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

Robert Briffault

#3. Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I've completely changed the way I eat since doing 'Dancing With The Stars.'

Kelly Osbourne

#5. The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

Robert Briffault

#6. Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

Robert Briffault

#7. Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

#8. How many people get a second chance at love with the only person they've ever held in their heart?

Tara Sivec

#9. The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.

Robert Briffault

#10. For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Robert Briffault

#11. No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

Robert Briffault

#12. even reflected glory can be intoxicating.

Claire Cook

#13. The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment ... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Robert Briffault

#14. It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

Rob James-Collier

#15. The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

Robert Briffault