Top 100 Marquis Quotes
#1. Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Don Marquis
#2. I suggest somewhere that anyone who wishes to write and has no aptitude for it would be better off making shoes for ladies and boots for men.
Marquis De Sade
#3. Ah, but I'm not a gentleman," said the Marquis. "I have it on the best of authority that I am only a
nobleman."
"Good gracious, Vidal, who in the world dared to say such a thing?" cried his cousin, instantly
diverted.
"Mary," replied his lordship, pouring himself out a glass of wine.
Georgette Heyer
#4. My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.
Marquis De Lafayette
#5. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
#6. My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis De Sade
#7. Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
Marquis De Lafayette
#8. Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain
Marquis De Sade
#9. Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
#10. Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.
Marie-Antoine Careme
#11. In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
Marquis De Sade
#12. Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
Marquis De Sade
#13. Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
Don Marquis
#14. Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Marquis De Sade
#15. Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.
E.B. White
#16. 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
#17. it s cheerio
my deario
that pulls a
lady through
exclamation point
Don Marquis
#18. The Marquis had known whom he had wanted not to be, when he was a boy. He had definitely not wanted to be like Peregrine. He had not wanted to be like anyone at all. He had, instead, wanted to be elegant, elusive, brilliant and, above all things, he had wanted to be unique.
Just like Peregrine.
Neil Gaiman
#19. Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for the honor they have done to the American name in every part of the globe.
Marquis De Lafayette
#20. When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Don Marquis
#21. An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.
Don Marquis
#22. If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
Marquis De Lafayette
#23. The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis De Sade
#25. But the woman who stood knitting looked up steadily, and looked the Marquis in the face.
Charles Dickens
#26. Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella
Don Marquis
#27. The marquis de Carabas tossed the figurine to Mr. Croup, who caught it eagerly, like an addict catching a plastic baggie filled with white powder of dubious legality.
Neil Gaiman
#28. The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.
Don Marquis
#29. Islington smiled superciliously. "Lucifer?" It said. "Lucifer was an idiot. It wound up lord and master of nothing at all." The marquis grinned. "And you wound up lord and master of two thugs and a roomful of candles?
Neil Gaiman
#30. And above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will smell of your poverty. It will be colored by your weakness and be as thin as your hunger. There are other trades which you can take up: make boots, not books.
Marquis De Sade
#31. Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
Marquis De Sade
#32. Jean-Pierre Marquis, From a Geometrical Point of View: A Study of the History and Philosophy of Category Theory, Springer Science & Business Media, 2008.
Roger Scruton
#33. Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
Marquis De Sade
#35. Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
Marquis De Sade
#38. Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Marquis De Sade
#39. I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat
Don Marquis
#40. Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis
#41. The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
Don Marquis
#42. I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.
Marquis De Lafayette
#43. I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.
Marquis De Lafayette
#44. If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
Marquis De Sade
#45. Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
Don Marquis
#46. You want to know
whether i believe in ghosts
of course i do not believe in them
if you had known
as many of them as i have
you would not
believe in them either
Don Marquis
#47. Any way, death is so final, isn't it?
"Is it?" asked Richard.
"Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.
Neil Gaiman
#48. This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
Don Marquis
#49. He, being hacked and cut for three solid quarters of an hour by the vigorous hands that had taken charge of his education, was soon nothing but a single wound, from which blood spurted out on all sides.
Marquis De Sade
#50. Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
Marquis De Sade
#51. Everyone gets what they want most," Marquis mused. "I can't think of anything more terrifying.
Wildbow
#52. We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis
#53. When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there's your proof.
Dennis Cooper
#55. No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.
Marquis De Lafayette
#56. In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.
Marquis De Lafayette
#57. It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.'
By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
G.K. Chesterton
#58. To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them.
Marquis De Sade
#59. Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.
Marquis De Sade
#60. There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
Don Marquis
#61. Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Marquis De Sade
#62. The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Don Marquis
#63. Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
Marquis De Lafayette
#64. Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
Marquis De Lafayette
#65. The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
Marquis De Lafayette
#66. Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.
Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet
#67. 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
#68. What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
Marquis De Custine
#69. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday
Don Marquis
#70. Imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known - there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, for I will not change
Marquis De Sade
#71. Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.
Marquis De Lafayette
#72. Personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good
behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer
it is not much of a step up but i am humble
Don Marquis
#73. Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall one day have the felicity of seeing it established in our beloved country.
Marquis De Lafayette
#74. Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
Marquis De Sade
#75. Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and has never been settled except by those whose arguments are rooted in the conviction that reading leads to trouble. So it does; so it must, for reading leads nowhere but to questions.
Richard Seaver
#76. Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
Don Marquis
#77. It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Don Marquis
#78. One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis
#79. An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
Marquis De Lafayette
#80. An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
#81. Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
Marquis De Sade
#82. I don't want the universe broken up just yet," drawled the Marquis. "I want to do a lot of beastly things before I die. I thought of one yesterday in bed.
G.K. Chesterton
#83. Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis
#84. Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
Don Marquis
#85. It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
Marquis De Sade
#86. The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.
Marquis De Lafayette
#87. A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
Don Marquis
#88. In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.
Marquis De Lafayette
#89. It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life's thorns
Marquis De Sade
#90. All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!
Marquis De Lafayette
#91. My master is the same as god
when he thumps with his hand
people bring us hamburg steaks
at any eating stand pete s holiday
Don Marquis
#93. True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
Marquis De Lafayette
#94. Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#95. My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.
Don Marquis
#96. God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
Marquis De Sade
#97. The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;
Marquis De Sade
#98. It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
Don Marquis
#99. Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Marquis De Sade
#100. The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to punish, as for the abuse of republican reforms, by making us feel all the weight of absolute monarchy.
Marquis De Lafayette
