Quote

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Nicolas Chamfort

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Thinking
Revolutions
Rose
Revolution
Literature
Water
Made
Think

More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

Image
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Women of the world crave excitement.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
It is children only who enjoy the present their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
Nicolas Chamfort
Image
Remorse turns us against ourselves.
Nicolas Chamfort