Jules Goncourt Quotes

#1. I have a lot of critics; we all know that.

Hope Solo

#2. Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

Jules De Goncourt

#3. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.

Donald J. Trump

#4. There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

Jules De Goncourt

#5. You talk to any of the job creators, and they'll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is the debt. And so high levels of indebtedness are going to lead to high levels of taxation, which lead to high level of unemployment.

Jeb Hensarling

#6. There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Jules De Goncourt

#7. Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Jules De Goncourt

#8. I never knew what to say."
"Really? You seem comfortable enough with words."
"I have a formal and aesthetic relationship to words.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#9. History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Jules De Goncourt

#10. When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Jules De Goncourt

#11. Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

Jules De Goncourt

#12. It seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain.

George Eliot

#13. Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

Jules De Goncourt

#14. I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.

Lakshmi Mittal

#15. It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Mark Twain

#16. An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

Warren Buffett

#17. A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

Jules De Goncourt

#18. He hesitated, looking at her. The old Ellie was gone. Replaced by a woman who was detached and cold.
He didn't know what to say, how to reach her. There was a wall around her, and he'd laid the foundation for her to build it.

Kathy Love

#19. The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

Jules De Goncourt