Marquise Du Deffand Quotes

#1. Everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#2. Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#3. Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Stockwell Day

#4. Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#5. In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#6. You drank my blood." With one arched brow, Rachel seared Rees with her stare.

"Yes, but only because he commanded it.

D.A. Rhine

#7. Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#8. Elena: I guess a dying woman can be stupid if she wants. I'm crazy about you, Archangel. You scare the shit out of me at times, but I want to dance with you anyway.

Nalini Singh

#9. God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#10. The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.

Mari De Vichy-Chamrond Marquise Du Deffand

#11. Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#12. There is a distinction to be made between aloneness and loneliness.

Ruskin Bond

#13. Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

Winston Churchill

#14. I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#15. Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#16. The first step is the hardest.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#17. Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#18. Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#19. Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#20. Beauty brings us back to the now.

Allan G. Hunter

#21. Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage."
"Courage?" he asked with confusion.
"Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.

Lynsay Sands

#22. I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#23. I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.

Michael Hastings

#24. The cross is not just a badge to identify us ... it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

John Stott