Le Bon Quotes

#1. Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.

Elaine Sciolino

#3. Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,
very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.

Julius Charles Hare

#4. There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!

Agatha Christie

#5. You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

#6. One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.

Gustave Le Bon

#7. The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Gustave Le Bon

#8. You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

Simon Le Bon

#9. I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

Simon Le Bon

#10. Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for
self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.

Gustave Le Bon

#11. After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

Simon Le Bon

#12. I succumbed to hedonism.

Simon Le Bon

#13. I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment.

Amber Le Bon

#14. You've got to make sure that you make the best of the day that you're in.

Simon Le Bon

#15. You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

Amber Le Bon

#16. Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.

Amber Le Bon

#17. Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardor of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would soon become a cult.

Gustave Le Bon

#18. Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian - that is, a creature acting by instinct.

Gustave Le Bon

#19. Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much or how many people you can love, even though at times you feel as though you could burst - you don't - you just love even more.

Yasmin Le Bon

#20. It is time in particular that prepares the opinions and beliefs of crowds, or at least the soil on which they will germinate.

Gustave Le Bon

#21. Never leave home without a great gloss: Dior Addict Perfecto is one of my faves.

Amber Le Bon

#22. In a crowd every sentiment and act is contagious, and contagious to such a degree that an individual readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest.

Gustave Le Bon

#23. The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Gustave Le Bon

#24. Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.

Gustave Le Bon

#25. I've got three kids, and those are mouths to feed.

Simon Le Bon

#26. A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy; you give off a glow - or at least that is what my mum would say!

Amber Le Bon

#27. Crowds always, and individuals as a rule, stand in need of ready-made opinions on all subjects. The popularity of these opinions is independent of the measure of truth or error they contain, and is solely regulated by their prestige.

Gustave Le Bon

#28. Sad news- Prince is gone. Music has lost a great presence. A world less funky. I don't believe in it.

Simon Le Bon

#29. That's my one rule: always take off my makeup; no matter how tired I am before going to bed, it comes off!

Amber Le Bon

#30. I use Simple face wipes and Nivea face cream. For my body any kind of body butter, the more moisturising the better.

Amber Le Bon

#31. I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.

Amber Le Bon

#32. There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.

Simon Le Bon

#33. Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls.

Charlotte Le Bon

#34. I always accessorize with jewelry. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewelry makes me feel more exciting and confident, too!

Amber Le Bon

#35. The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Gustave Le Bon

#36. Acquired or artificial prestige is much the most common. The mere fact that an individual occupies a certain position, possesses a certain fortune, or bears certain titles, endows him with prestige, however slight his own personal worth.

Gustave Le Bon

#37. I'm vegetarian, so it's difficult for me to eat Tourtiere.

Charlotte Le Bon

#38. From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point of view of character the difference is most often slight or non-existent

Gustave Le Bon

#39. I'm very low maintenance. I use Simple wipes to take off my makeup, wash my hair with whatever's in the shower.

Amber Le Bon

#40. I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.

Charlotte Le Bon

#41. The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts - Est bien un bon remords)

Charles De Leusse

#42. I actually love shopping in vintage shops. What I do with the high street, I buy it, then keep it for a while and then wear it when everyone's not wearing it. So I do that: stock up, then keep it hidden!

Amber Le Bon

#43. We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

Simon Le Bon

#44. In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.

Gustave Le Bon

#45. These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it's about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it's about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it's not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That's a mistake.

Simon Le Bon

#46. It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money.

Simon Le Bon

#47. It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

Simon Le Bon

#48. Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

Simon Le Bon

#49. In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

Gustave Le Bon

#50. What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.

Charlotte Le Bon

#51. The explanation is that their science is only a very attenuated form of our universal ignorance.

Gustave Le Bon

#52. My style is definitely schizophrenic; it does change from day to day a lot. It depends on my mood: sometimes I'll be going through a girly, childlike stage and wear a pretty lace dress with a bow in my hair. Then sometimes I'll be moody and just wear black.

Amber Le Bon

#53. Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is just to be a nice person - to be generous, kind and happy. I hope it comes off when I work and meet people.

Amber Le Bon

#54. The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

Gustave Le Bon

#55. For the rival candidate, an effort must be made to destroy his chance by establishing by dint of affirmation, repetition, and contagion that he is an arrant scoundrel, and that it is a matter of common knowledge that he has been guilty of several crimes.

Gustave Le Bon

#56. Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Simon Le Bon

#57. The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

Gustave Le Bon

#58. The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

Gustave Le Bon

#59. I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.

Simon Le Bon

#60. Science has promised us truth ... It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Gustave Le Bon

#61. My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!

Simon Le Bon

#62. I think it's important when you make a record that you know you're working with the people who are going to get the best out of you.

Simon Le Bon

#63. A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission of his will, and the whole-souled ardour of fanaticism at the service of a cause or an individual who becomes the goal and guide of his thoughts and actions.

Gustave Le Bon

#64. To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out.

Amber Le Bon

#65. Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

Simon Le Bon

#66. When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.

Charlotte Le Bon

#67. The ideas of the past, although half destroyed, being still very powerful, and the ideas which are to replace them being still in process of formation, the modern age represents a period of transition and anarchy.

Gustave Le Bon

#68. That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

Simon Le Bon

#69. Get a really good coat that will last a couple of years and that you can't wait to put on when the weather starts to turn.

Amber Le Bon

#70. This incessant creation of restrictive laws and regulations,surrounding the pettiest actions of existence with the most complicated formalities, inevitably has for its result the confining within narrower and narrower limits of the sphere in which the citizen may move freely.

Gustav Le Bon

#71. I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

Amber Le Bon

#72. I feel stronger, but physically I feel like I'm falling apart. Every day I get a new pain or ache and think, 'Oh, that will be a hip replacement in a couple of years'.

Yasmin Le Bon

#73. You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there.

Simon Le Bon

#74. The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.

Gustave Le Bon

#75. If I'm not feeling super confident about an outfit or a little insecure - I'll probably accessorize my outfit with some jewelry.

Amber Le Bon

#76. The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.

Gustave Le Bon

#77. God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.

Simon Le Bon

#78. If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

Gustave Le Bon

#79. The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.

Gustave Le Bon

#80. If I'm feeling in a naughty mood, I'll steal some of Mama's Creme De La Mer. If I'm feeling in a very naughty mood, I'll steal some of Daddy's Creme De La Mer. On the whole though, I'm very low maintenance.

Amber Le Bon

#81. The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.

Gustave Le Bon

#82. The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.

Gustave Le Bon

#83. Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

Gustave Le Bon

#84. To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. Necessity and time undertake the charge of elaborating constitutions when we are wise enough to allow these two factors to act

Gustave Le Bon

#85. Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

Gustave Le Bon

#86. The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

Gustave Le Bon

#87. The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.

Amber Le Bon

#88. Sentiment has never been vanquished in its eternal conflict with reason

Gustave Le Bon

#89. The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question.

Gustave Le Bon

#90. Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

Simon Le Bon

#91. I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be friendly and say 'please' and 'thank you.' I try and remember it and use it.

Amber Le Bon

#92. I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

Charlotte Le Bon

#93. The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible.

Gustave Le Bon

#94. My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'

Amber Le Bon

#95. We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls ... I won.

Simon Le Bon

#96. Food from Quebec is not known to be amazing. Actually, even though you can eat really, really well in Montreal, it's crazy. It's one of the best cities I eat in, but typical Quebec food is like food from people that work in the woods. It's potatoes, meat and sauce.

Charlotte Le Bon

#97. You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

Simon Le Bon

#98. From the primary school till he leaves the
university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his
judgment or personal initiative being ever called into play.

Gustave Le Bon

#99. I love Maje, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Christopher Kane, Felder + Felder, and Sam Edelman shoes.

Amber Le Bon

#100. Throw out the rule book. If you like wearing navy and black together, wear it; if you like mixing up gold and silver jewellery, mix it. If you like it, wear it - don't care about what anyone else thinks.

Amber Le Bon