Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear she should mercifully choose between the two.
Jean de la Bruyere
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Two
Humblest
Bigots
Husbands
Bear
Bears
Husband
Mercifully
Choose
Coquette
Woman
Bigot
More quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
Jean de la Bruyere
There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere
Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
Jean de la Bruyere
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
Jean de la Bruyere
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
Jean de la Bruyere
There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.
Jean de la Bruyere
Sudden love is latest cured.
Jean de la Bruyere
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
Jean de la Bruyere
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]
Jean de la Bruyere
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
Jean de la Bruyere
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
Jean de la Bruyere
All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.
Jean de la Bruyere
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Jean de la Bruyere
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
Jean de la Bruyere
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
Jean de la Bruyere
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.
Jean de la Bruyere
Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
Jean de la Bruyere
To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?
Jean de la Bruyere
The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
Jean de la Bruyere
