Frederic Beigbeder Quotes

#1. It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

Amos Oz

#2. As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

Ivan Panin

#3. The class war is over.

Tony Blair

#4. No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

Nora Ephron

#5. If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.

Barack Obama

#6. Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad.
I turn my face towards it and I laugh.
Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad.
I laugh again.
Some people think that she's already mad, I think.

David Almond

#7. The truth is always a disappointment, which is why everybody lies.

Frederic Beigbeder

#8. Happiness is a lot more frightening than depression.

Frederic Beigbeder

#9. Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

Pam Brown

#10. Love is when you cease hesitating.

Frederic Beigbeder

#11. Obedience, submission, discipline, courage
these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Samuel Smiles

#12. There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even - the French air clears up the brain and does good - a world of good.

Vincent Van Gogh

#13. Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure.

Frederic Beigbeder

#14. Love is a battle lost before even begun.

Frederic Beigbeder

#15. Because it's yourself you really ruin, when you make someone else suffer

Frederic Beigbeder

#16. The only true phenom ... is me.

Randy Orton

#17. Things are always obvious after the fact. The civil servant was a very intelligent person, and this mistake is much more prevalent than one would think. It has to do with the way our mind handles historical information.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb