Duc De Sully Quotes

You Mademoiselle are hardly in a position to remonstrate. The entire world has no doubt been at your feet from the cradle."
"Would you care to join them?" She was teasing but testing her powers too in a feminine display of vanity.
She was too perfect he thought, as she stood provocatively nude before him, too exotic, too tempting, too assured of her extravagant beauty. "Perhaps some other time," his gaze having shuttered slightly, the familiar sardonic half-lidded gaze of the Duc de Vec once again regarding her… ~ Susan Johnson

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

The highest skill is the true judgment of values. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

The most trying fools are the bright ones. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Nothing is given so willingly as advice. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

In those times panics were common, and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of this kind. There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who made war against the cardinal; there was Spain, which made war against the king. Then, in addition to these concealed or public, secret or open wars, there were robbers, mendicants, Huguenots, wolves, and scoundrels, who made war upon everybody. The citizens always took up arms readily against thieves, wolves or scoundrels, often against nobles or Huguenots, sometimes against the king, but never against cardinal or Spain. It resulted, then, from this habit that on the said first Monday of April, 1625, the citizens, on hearing the clamor, and seeing neither the red-and-yellow standard nor the livery of the Duc de Richelieu, rushed toward the hostel of the Jolly Miller. When arrived there, the cause of the hubbub was apparent to all. ~ Alexandre Dumas

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. ~ Robert Gottlieb

A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing. ~ Etienne Francois, Duc De Choiseul

The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de
.'
'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He said this so well, and with such majesty than Julien could not help thinking that knowing how to lose his temper with a footman was the whole extent of this great personage's knowledge. ~ Stendhal

What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts. ~ Duc De La Rochefoucauld 16131680

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. ~ Maximilien De Bethune, Duke Of Sully

Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets. ~ Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Miaow

Consider me.
I sit here like Tiberius,
inscrutable and grand.
I will let "I dare not"
wait upon "I would"
and bear the twangling
of your small guitar
because you are my owl
and foster me with milk.
Why wet my paw?
Just keep me in a bag
and no one knows the truth.
I am familiar with witches
and stand a better chance in hell than you
for I can dance on hot bricks,
leap your height
and land on all fours.
I am the servant of the Living God.
I worship in my way.
Look into these slit green stones
and follow your reflected lights
into the dark.

Michel, Duc de Montaigne, knew.
You don't play with me.
I play with you. ~ Mark Haddon

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness! ~ Antonia Fraser

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future. ~ Honore De Balzac

The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu. ~ Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily
do not rob the little violet of it's scent nor the daisy of its simple charm.
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. ~ Therese De Lisieux

How narrow is the gate and strait is the way that leadeth to life, and few there are that find it!6 are words of our Lord. 8. The narrow gate ~ San Juan De La Cruz

All the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult. ~ Olivia De Havilland

Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth. ~ Madame De Stael

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you. ~ Dino De Laurentiis

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists. ~ Mary Pope Osborne

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse. ~ Gijs De Vries

I am now at a time of life when I can look back on the past, for my soul has been refined in the crucible of interior and exterior trials. Now, like a flower after the storm, I can raise my head and see that the words of the Psalm are realised in me: "The Lord is my Shepherd and I shall want nothing. He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up on the water of refreshment. He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice for His own Name's sake. For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils for Thou are with me."[6] ~ Therese, Saint De Lisieux

A laconic and highly entertaining" novel. "The characters are strong, each showing major evidence of being a product of their respective cultures. Overall, the story is a strong one, with a couple of well-executed twists that succeed in surprising the reader."

- Publishers Weekly judge for the 2014 ABNA Contest, Two Brides for Ewan de Buchan


"I love historical romance novels and this one right off the bat based on the plot/hook made me want to read more. I devoured this...and re-read it twice. It seems like the author has a very good handle on the time period in which this novel is set."

- 2014 ABNA Contest judge, Two Brides for Ewan de Buchan


"I think this is really well crafted and interesting. The plot/hook caught me from the first paragraph. The characters are well done and I really loved the novelist's attention to historical detail...It's a really great romance novel, and is of publication quality. This novelist has a real future in writing romance (or even general fiction) books."

- 2014 ABNA Contest judge, Two Brides for Ewan de Buchan ~ E. Elizabeth Watson

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light? ~ Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves. ~ Honore De Balzac

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses. ~ Elsie De Wolfe

I thought that helping someone meant sharing everything, even the things you can't understand, even the darkest stuff. ~ Delphine De Vigan

To all the mothers out there. Happy mothers day. May the Lord give you more years to live and enough strength to face the daily challenges. May he blesses you. May he keep you, until you see your children succeed in life. Thanks for all the love and for making sure we grow up right. I have felt God's love through you. Everyday to me it's a Happy Mothers Day , because there is no day were you stopped being a mother to me. ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

< ... > out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace. ~ Guy De Maupassant

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. ~ Luc De Clapiers

They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name. ~ Michel De Certeau

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero. ~ Jan De Bont

Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue. ~ Marquis De Sade

Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]. ~ Augustus De Morgan