Pineau De Charente Quotes

The next day, he read to me a freshly composed dirge in which the circumstances of his wife's death and burial were commemorated. He read it in a voice quavering with emotion, and the hand that held the paper was trembling. When he had finished, he asked me whether the verses were worthy of the treasure that he had lost.
"They are," I said.
"They may lack poetic inspiration," he remarked, after a moment's hesitation, "but no one can deny them sentiment - although possibly the sentiment itself prejudices the merits…"
"Not in my opinion. I find the poem perfect."
"Yes, I suppose, when you consider…Well, after all, it's just a few lines written by a sailor."
"By a sailor who happens to be also a poet."
He shrugged his shoulders, looked at the paper, and recited his composition again, but this time without quavering or trembling, emphasizing the literary qualities and bringing out the imagery and music in the verses. When he had finished, he expressed the opinion that it was the most finished of his works, and I agreed. He shook my hand and predicted a great future for me. ~ Machado De Assis

Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth. ~ Louis De Broglie

Man is a social animal formed to please in society. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Make a conscious decision, no matter what it is, and know that that choice will have consequences. ~ Eddie De Jong

In certain situations, you can't worry about how people will react. You just hyave to be as honest as you can and let what happens afterward happen. ~ Marisa De Los Santos

There are many things we despise in order that we may not have to despise ourselves. ~ Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost. ~ Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die. ~ Rory Miller

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. ~ Michel De Montaigne

In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands. ~ Anthony De Jasay

The most significant fact of political life, which almost no news organization will dare to acknowledge – because it would at a stroke exclude half of its speculations and disappointments – is that in some key areas of politics, nothing can be achieved very quickly by any one person or party; it would be impossible for anyone – not simply this fool or that group of cretins – to change matters at a pace that would flatter the expectations of the news cycle; and that in the case of certain problems, the only so-called 'solutions' will have to await a hundred years or more of incremental change, rather than a messianic leader, an international conference or a quick war. ~ Alain De Botton

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit. ~ Pierre De Coubertin

God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living. ~ Vincent De Paul

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes." "Yeah, right, you don't seem like the type of guy who has a pile of femur bones stuffed behind your collared shirts and navy blue blazers." Nick and Wilson ~ Gretchen De La O

Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir ~ Frank Herbert

While you are meditating revenge, the devil is meditating a recruit. ~ Francois De Malherbe

Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to assert it. I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of property, the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is annihilated. She believes that co-operation would entirely supplant competition; I hold that competition in one form or another will always exist, and that it is highly desirable it should. ~ Voltairine De Cleyre

If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardur and paradoxes - than our travels. They express, however inarticulately, an understanding of what life might be about, outside the constraints of work and of the struggle for survival. ~ Alain De Botton

The most delightful and choicest pleasure is that which is hinted at, but never told. ~ Chretien De Troyes

To philosophize is to learn to die. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I will help people become the best that they can be. ~ Eddie De Jong

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible. ~ Alexander P. De Seversky

I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want. ~ Robert De Niro

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. ~ Delphine De Girardin

We must remember that beauty is dictated from the spectators opinion therefore anyone can be beautiful depending on who is watching you ~ Yolanda De Iuliis

A thought provoking number of the world's most intelligent people have disdained any interest in decoration and design, equating contentment with discarnate and invisible matters instead. ~ Alain De Botton

There's might too in the incomplete. In feeling fractional. A failure to carry out is perhaps no failure at all, but rather a minced metric of splendor. The ongoing. The outlawed. The no-patrol. The act of making loose. Of not doing as you've been told. Of betting on miscalculations and cul-de-sacs. Why force conciliation when, from time to time, long-held deep breaths follow what we consider defeat? Why not want a little mania? The shrill of chance, of what's weird. Of purple hats and hiccups. Endurance is a talent that seldom worries about looking good, and abiding has its virtues even when the tongue dries. The intention shouldn't only be to polish what we start but to acknowledge that beginning again and again can possess the acquisitive thrill of a countdown that never reaches zero. Groping ~ Durga Chew-Bose

Paganism sacralizes and thereby exalts this world whereas Judeo-Christian monotheism sanctifies and thereby retreats from this world. Paganism is based on the idea of the sacred. ~ Alain De Benoist

To commit the act of felo-de-se is a form of delusion. You see, my love, to leave one's life unfinished implies the possibility of success. What is left unlived may contain the potential truth one always seeks. Those who kill themselves do so with the conviction that they would have reached that truth eventually had they lived to the proper end. They die in the illusion of hope which in a way keeps the rest of us alive. Reason, therefore, for not committing suicide. ~ Raymond Federman

Clearing his throat, he rumbled, "Miss Darling, a word if you please."
"Sesquipedalian," she said, keeping her back towards him.
The strange response momentarily stunned him. "Pardon?"
Turning around, she leaned against the counter and grinned at him, "You asked for a word and I gave you one. It means 'many syllabled' and while it's exceedingly pretentious it is a lot of fun to say. Sesquipedalian; it tangles up the tongue and then just falls right off.
"Or perhaps you would prefer a different word?" she continued guilelessly and he was completely charmed by her. "Tittle, which is the little dot over i's and j's; or Ornithopter, an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings; Tuatha De Danan Lora or Expector Patronum?"
"Now you're just making words up," he grinned, and realized he had missed talking to her. ~ A.C. Warneke

Peace is a natural effect of trade. ~ Charles De Montesquieu

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I have vanquished giants, and I have sent villains and malefactors to her, but where can they find her if she has been enchanted and transformed into the ugliest peasant girl anyone can imagine? ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off. ~ Simone De Beauvoir