Marivaux Quotes

#1. Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.

Pierre De Marivaux

#2. Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

William Feather

#3. Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.

Thomas Gray

#4. The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Sheila Rowbotham

#6. In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

Deepak Chopra

#7. I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

Joni Mitchell

#8. Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. If I leave you as I found you, I am not God's channel. I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.

Smith Wigglesworth

#9. In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.

Pierre De Marivaux

#10. This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.

William Landay

#11. Never ever give up on yourself. You are here to make it big.

Avijeet Das

#12. Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.

Marc Faber

#13. It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Rudy Rucker

#14. about as emotional as a bagpipe.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#15. Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#16. My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

Beverly Johnson

#17. The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.

Pierre De Marivaux