Charles Augustin Sainte 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. There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#3. Your cell phone today has more computer power than all of NASA when it put two men on the moon in 1969.

Michio Kaku

#4. 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

#5. If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#6. In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#7. 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

#8. When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Tom Ford

#9. With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#10. Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#14. I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration.

Tairrie B

#15. When two hearts believe, love makes things possible.

Farzana Zahid

#16. I'd blurted out the question only to keep him from noticing that I was working my hands free, but the Warden behind me, some young brown-haired surfer dude, yelled a warning. "She's getting loose!"
Narc.

Rachel Caine

#17. I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#18. I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#19. Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#20. If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

Kate Beckinsale

#21. A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#22. 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

#23. If you have a positive attitude, you are likely to live a decade longer than people with a negative attitude.

John Ortberg

#24. I came up with a story and I wrote it.

E.L. James

#25. I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself

Haruki Murakami

#26. People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

James Madison

#27. The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .

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. Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve