Jules De Goncourt Inspirational Quotes (6)

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

History is a novel which did take place a novel is history that could take place.

Never speak of yourself to others make them talk about themselves instead therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.