Delphine De Girardin Quotes

#1. I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

Milan Kundera

#3. What's wrong, little sis? You look upset."
She could barely catch her breath. "Cracked ... my ... nail polish slapping your ... worthless face. See?" She showed him her finger - just one of them.
"Cute" He snorted.

Cassandra Clare

#4. Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Delphine De Girardin

#5. In softball ... , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.

Yvette Girouard

#6. Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Delphine De Girardin

#7. Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

Delphine De Girardin

#8. There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

Delphine De Girardin

#9. Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

Delphine De Girardin

#10. Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

Delphine De Girardin

#11. For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

Delphine De Girardin

#12. 188. I hated trying to figure out what was best morally, because so often that didn't jibe with my gut reaction.

Charlaine Harris

#13. Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Delphine De Girardin

#14. Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#15. The best religion is the most tolerant.

Delphine De Girardin

#16. The woods are but the ears of the Almighty, the air is his breath, and the light of the sun is little more than a glance of his eye.

James Fenimore Cooper

#17. To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

Delphine De Girardin

#18. The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

Don Henley

#19. Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

Delphine De Girardin

#20. Business is other people's money.

Delphine De Girardin

#21. Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there is too little of the juice of the jest.

G.K. Chesterton

#22. Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

Delphine De Girardin