Top 100 L'esprit De L'escalier Quotes
#1. ...unfortunately, I am incapable of thinking up perfectly biting, split-second retorts, in any language. The French even have a word for this: l'esprit de l'escalier; staircase wit, something you only think of on the way out.
Tania Aebi
#2. I am often tongue-tied with strangers and have what the philosopher Monsieur Diderot calls l'esprit de l'escalier, staircase wit: only long after a remark is made to me will my imagination supply the thing I should have said in reply.
Debra Dean
#3. I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.
Robert De Niro
#5. We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#6. Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#7. She told me the French expression [Esprit de l'escalier] - the spirit of the staircase - for the voice that catches up with you, minutes after the fact, to make fun of whatever you said and come up with the perfect answer you didn't think of. We even had our own code phrase: SOS, we called it.
Francine Prose
#8. I always start the day with a cup of hot water and lemon - I find it really cleanses and hydrates me. I have very sensitive, dry skin, so I have to be careful about what I put on my face. My must-haves are Dermalogica cleansing gel and L'Or De Vie Creme Riche by Dior, which is thick and nourishing.
Eva Green
#11. The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]
Jean De La Bruyere
#14. I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
Gilles Deleuze
#15. Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer la guerre)
Charles De Leusse
#16. Don't make a career out of underestimating me." - Claire de Haven
James Ellroy
#18. That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]
Blaise Pascal
#19. It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#20. Now aren't you glad I made you take a bath?" Bill asked. "One less bottle of eau de reekette punching holes in l'ozone.
Lauren Kate
#21. A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#24. There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
L. Sprague De Camp
#25. Massoud is dead, but not the hope ! (Massoud est mort, - Mais pas l'espoir !)
Charles De Leusse
#26. Every lover has love that he converts to future. (Chaque amoureux a l'amour - Qu'il convertit en futur.)
Charles De Leusse
#27. Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom.
Martin Amis
#28. They, OLDEFO (Old Established Forces), carry out l'exploitation de l'homme par 'homme (the exploitation of man by man). Do not let them live, so that there's no colonialism anymore in the world.
Sukarno
#29. You know, we worry about the Bomb, a thought interceded, and yet just look around: there are millions of people out there, just like you and me, with their thumb on the self-destruct button.
Etienne De L'Amour
#30. Let her destroy me if she will. Better to be destroyed by her love than to never have known it. Erik
Book 2~Chanson de l'Ange: The Angel's Song
Paisley Swan Stewart
#31. Being around you was the sweetest torture. I wanted to touch you, hold you, kiss you. I wanted all of you." His shoulders slumped. "But I was afraid of what would happen if I gave in my desire. If I let myself love you.
Danielle L. Jensen
#32. Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#33. whatever dat gal want to show you, going to be wid you til de doctor clear you!
Theresa L. Henry
#34. Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
Alfred Jarry
#35. Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s'enterre - Dans l'optimisme des morts.)
Charles De Leusse
#36. When we hear the bird sing, it hears only how to love. (Quand on entend l'oiseau chanter, - Lui n'entend que comment aimer.)
Charles De Leusse
#37. Apre' s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
#38. I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.
Lea Seydoux
#40. Hatred is nearly always honest
rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#41. It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#42. The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.
[Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]
Jean De La Bruyere
#43. There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
Giada De Laurentiis
#44. L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce' s, fatigue et tension de me moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
Roland Barthes
#45. A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
Gilles Deleuze
#46. The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)
Charles De Leusse
#47. Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.
Gilles Deleuze
#48. The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie in the Heavens?
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#49. Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#50. Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.
Etienne De L'Amour
#51. A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got to L'Histoire De Melody Nelson (1969) I was thinking, 'How can this man have died before I got to know his music?' I was a convert.
Sylvie Simmons
#53. Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l'espoir que nos raisons.)
Charles De Leusse
#54. As Christian mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." He was right. If we recognize the soul lesson, we can grow beyond suffering, and there is no stress in this state of understanding.
Brian L. Weiss
#55. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#56. Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#57. And far away in goddamn L.A. or Madison Avenue is the prick who decided that Skittles would sell more quickly if they promised Jalens they would taste the fucking rainbow which is like a complete fucking impossibility and even if it wasn't who said a rainbow would even taste good you know?
Sergio De La Pava
#58. Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#63. The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
[Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#65. The money opens many doors. That of the coffin, among other things. (L'argent ouvre de nombreuses portes. - Celle du cercueil, entre autres.)
Charles De Leusse
#66. L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.
Sydney Samuelson
#67. A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#68. Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.
L. Sprague De Camp
#69. Or have you simply been enjoying that North African river cruise?"
"You what?"
"In de-Nile?
J.L. Merrow
#70. Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#71. If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#72. There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#74. Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.
Aldous Huxley
#75. Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#76. He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac escaped from a secure mental hospital.
Etienne De L'Amour
#78. Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? / Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du NOUVEAU! (rough translation : Into the abyss
Heaven or Hell, what difference does it make? / To the depths of the Unknown to find the NEW!)
Charles Baudelaire
#79. The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. (L'eau ne brille que par le soleil. - Et c'est toi qui es mon soleil.)
Charles De Leusse
#80. [L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.
Vincent De Paul
#83. A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#84. I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.
Carla Hall
#86. You could say, in a way, that I'm not actually a writer, though perhaps I might be called a recorder? ... I just happen to be one of those holding the pen, that's all.
Etienne De L'Amour
#87. There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
[Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]
Jean De La Bruyere
#88. Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!
Ninon De L'Enclos
#89. It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.
Vincent De Paul
#90. The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.
Etienne De L'Amour
#91. Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#92. Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who thereby, according to their several dispositions, become either dead drunke, or foolish drunke, or madde drunke.
Matthias De L'Obel
#94. And when we wr i t e he r life hi s tory, we f ind tha t we know nothing about the f i r s t s even ye a r s of he r life, but the de eds of he r l a t e r chi ldhood a r e to be s e en in the old rocks .(
Anonymous
#95. The hidden economy [is] fed not by money and greed but by love, pure and simple. You see the best and truly golden opportunities do not arise to benefit oneself, but in order to benefit others.
Etienne De L'Amour
#96. Yet I cannot believe that this talisman of love has lost all its power and I still attempt to use it.
- Those who have never had occasion to feel sometimes the value of a word, of an expression, consecrated by love will find no sense in this phrase. (C. de L.)
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#99. For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.
Etienne De L'Amour
#100. I despise Wednesdays! They are the Marquis de Sade of the work week. Wednesday are so awful that...wait..what? It's Thurs? (face-palm)
L.G.A. McIntyre
