Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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
Great
Composed
Classes
Appetite
Dinner
Class
Society
Funny
Two
Dinners
More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Nicolas Chamfort
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
Nicolas Chamfort
Be my brother or I will kill you.
Nicolas Chamfort
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Nicolas Chamfort
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Nicolas Chamfort
Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
Nicolas Chamfort
It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
Nicolas Chamfort
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
Nicolas Chamfort
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas Chamfort
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
Nicolas Chamfort
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Nicolas Chamfort
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
Nicolas Chamfort
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
Nicolas Chamfort
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicolas Chamfort
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
Nicolas Chamfort
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Nicolas Chamfort
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas Chamfort
The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
Nicolas Chamfort
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
Nicolas Chamfort
