Girardin Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent.

Richard Corliss

#4. Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.
--Hugo Anstead

Jennifer A. Girardin

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

Delphine De Girardin

#6. 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

#7. Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Kathryn Stockett

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

Delphine De Girardin

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

Delphine De Girardin

#10. Because you know that's not how you want it to end. You know I'd love to have you with me, and it will be that way, one day. But this isn't the way it ought to happen.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. Do you ever hear from your
dad?' I ask.
'Uh-uh. Mum said they had the biggest
fight before he left. She was sixteen and telling him about me and he left a dad shaped hole in the wall.

Cath Crowley

#12. The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

Iain Pears

#13. Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson

Jennifer A. Girardin

#14. The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.

Emile De Girardin

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

Delphine De Girardin

#16. Awareness, like wine, is always better for the vintage.
--Hugo Anstead

Jennifer A. Girardin

#17. I hate unbreakable alibis--they are usually the first to crack.
--Hugo Anstead

Jennifer A. Girardin

#18. If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

Napoleon Hill

#19. The gospel simply means "the good news of Jesus."
Justice simply means "making what is wrong, right."
Gospel justice is the good news of Jesus that makes what is wrong, right.

Chris Marlow

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

Delphine De Girardin

#21. Truth is like light; you can shut your eyes to it, but it is ever before you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. Business is other people's money.

Delphine De Girardin

#23. Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson

Jennifer A. Girardin

#24. Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge

Jennifer A. Girardin

#25. All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#26. And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.

J.K. Rowling

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

Delphine De Girardin

#28. The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Charles Spurgeon

#29. The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.

Dorothea Dix

#30. I thought: "Perhaps Adelma is the city where you arrive dying and where each finds again the people he has known. This means I, too, am dead." And I also thought: "This means the beyond is not happy.

Italo Calvino

#31. 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

#32. The best religion is the most tolerant.

Delphine De Girardin

#33. Their smiles never lit up their eyes, and

John Connolly

#34. Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Delphine De Girardin

#35. Of my friends I am the only one left.

Terence