Marquis De Custine Quotes

#1. Be the Helper of my soul, O God, for I walk among many snares. Deliver me from them, O Good One, and save me, for Thou lovest mankind.

Anonymous

#2. Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.

Susan Andersen

#4. There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

George Orwell

#5. The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.

Louis Sullivan

#6. In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is ... that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

Marquis De Custine

#7. Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

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#8. The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

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#9. I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.

DJ Shadow

#10. I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.

Marquis De Custine

#11. In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.

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#12. Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

Reginald Rose

#13. Every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.

Jodi Picoult

#14. The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

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#15. Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Marquis De Custine

#16. It's always fun when people ask you for advice.

Carine Roitfeld

#17. What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

Marquis De Custine

#18. The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

Ariel Pink