Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
Nicolas Chamfort
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Men
Swallow
Meeting
Meetings
Ahead
Morning
Sure
Toad
Anything
Revolting
Every
Toads
More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Nicolas Chamfort
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
Nicolas Chamfort
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Nicolas Chamfort
All passions exaggerate and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas Chamfort
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Nicolas Chamfort
She commands who is blest with indifference.
Nicolas Chamfort
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Nicolas Chamfort
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Nicolas Chamfort
Be my brother or I will kill you.
Nicolas Chamfort
A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
Nicolas Chamfort
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Nicolas Chamfort
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
Nicolas Chamfort
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
Nicolas Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
Nicolas Chamfort
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
Nicolas Chamfort
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Nicolas Chamfort
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Nicolas Chamfort
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Nicolas Chamfort
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
Nicolas Chamfort
