Deffand Marie Quotes

#1. I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#2. Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#3. 9 And because I preach this Good News, I am suffering and have been chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained. 10 So I am willing to endure anything if it will bring salvation and eternal glory in Christ Jesus to those God has chosen.

Anonymous

#4. Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#5. I'd leave you here longer, but it's no longer safe.

Brian Staveley

#6. Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#7. God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#8. Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#9. Everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#10. Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

John Ruskin

#11. Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk

James Joyce

#12. They did not speak. Once, she said suddenly, "Mr. Galt." "Yes?" "No. Nothing. I just wanted to know whether you were still there." "I will always be there.

Ayn Rand

#13. Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#14. The first step is the hardest.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#15. Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

John Stuart Mill

#16. Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#17. Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, took his whole life to get to the point where he said, As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Miguel Ruiz

#18. Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#19. The clean truth of light can sometimes flow through its blackness, beauty seen dimly through darkness, and like life, it is terribly fragile, with edges that can be dangerously sharp.

George R R Martin

#20. I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand