Juez De La Quotes

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. ~ Oscar De La Renta

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you. ~ Oscar De La Renta

Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books. ... But what was love but pain? ~ Melissa De La Cruz

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You don't need an introduction to succeed in life. You need to have good work. Work hard. Believe in yourself ~ Oscar De La Renta

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

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

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

14. I say this in order to make it clear that the one who would go to God relying on natural ability and reasoning will not be very spiritual. There are some who think that by pure force and the activity of the senses, which of itself is lowly and no more than natural, they can reach the strength and height of the supernatural spirit. One does not attain to this peak without surpassing and leaving aside the activity of the senses. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

I don't believe that Nature's powers
Have tied her hands or pinioned ours,
By marking on the heavenly vault
Our fate without mistake or fault.
That fate depends on conjunctions
Of places, persons, times, and tracks,
And not on the functions
Of more or less of quacks. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Every season I am inspired by women. ~ Oscar De La Renta

Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino
sino estelas en la mar."


Traveler, your footprints
are the only road, nothing else.
Traveler, there is no road;
you make your own path as you walk.
As you walk, you make your own road,
and when you look back
you see the path
you will never travel again.
Traveler, there is no road;
only a ship's wake on the sea.

Translated by Mary G. Berg and Dennis Maloney ~ Antonio Machado

He knows the universe and does not know himself. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the spirit of love, as I shall show in the explanation of the following verse. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests on his poetic and dramatic output. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. In the English-speaking world his best-known works are often the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Though extremely conservative in his youth, Hugo moved to the political left as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. Source: Wikipedia ~ Victor Hugo

I live because I have to. You will hurt, you will bleed, you will be betrayed as I have been betrayed. You will survive. And you must learn to control your power. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The other evening, in that cafe-cabaret in the Rue de la Fontaine, where I had run aground with Tramsel and Jocard, who had taken me there to see that supposedly-fashionable singer... how could they fail to see that she was nothing but a corpse?

Yes, beneath the sumptuous and heavy ballgown, which swaddled her and held her upright like a sentry-box of pink velvet trimmed and embroidered with gold - a coffin befitting the queen of Spain - there was a corpse! But the others, amused by her wan voice and her emaciated frame, found her quaint - more than that, quite 'droll'...

Droll! that drab, soft and inconsistent epithet that everyone uses nowadays! The woman had, to be sure, a tiny carven head, and a kind of macabre prettiness within the furry heap of her opera-cloak. They studied her minutely, interested by the romance of her story: a petite bourgeoise thrown into the high life following the fad which had caught her up - and neither of them, nor anyone else besides in the whole of that room, had perceived what was immediately evident to my eyes. Placed flat on the white satin of her dress, the two hands of that singer were the two hands of a skeleton: two sets of knuckle-bones gloved in white suede. They might have been drawn by Albrecht
Durer: the ten fingers of an evil dead woman, fitted at the ends of the two overlong and excessively thin arms of a mannequin...

And while that room convulsed with laughter and thrilled with pleasure, g ~ Jean Lorrain

I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse. ~ Loulou De La Falaise

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself; he who goes away pleased with himself and his own wit is also greatly pleased with you. Most men would rather please than admire you; they seek less to be instructed, and even to be amused, than to be praised and applauded. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Listen, Legs, I'm going to die anyway. I'm human. And I don't know about you, but I don't believe in visions of the future. I believe we choose our own destiny. You didn't give me a choice last time. You just left. But I'm here now. And I love you. Stay with me. Don't fear the future; we'll face it together. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A true hunter always has trophies (even if they are secret). ~ Gabbo De La Parra

The secret to consciously dating is letting your heart be your guide. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her. ~ Oscar De La Renta