RINCONCASTELLANO.COM Seguir a la Page principal
Quotes by Category:
Art & Culture
Countries
Defects
Feelings
 Politics
Nature
Science & Technology
Society
 Time
Thought & Reason

Various
Virtues
Top Quotes
Age
America
Business
Death
Economy
Education
 Freedom
Friendship
Humankind
Life
Literature
Love
 Music
Politics
Proverbs
Religion
Truth
Work
Quotes by Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Alan Greenspan
Albert Einstein
Anonymous
Aristotle
Barack Obama
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin
Bill Gates
Chinese Proverb
Francis Bacon
F. Rochefoucauld
F. Nietzsche
George Bernard Shaw
George Eliot
 George W.Bush
Gilbert K.Chesterton
Henry D.Thoreau
Henry L. Mencken
Hillary Clinton
Johann W.Goethe
Lord Byron
Marcus T.Cicero
Margaret Thatcher
Mark Twain
Matt Groening
Montaigne
Nelson Mandela
Oliver Goldsmith
Orison S.Marden
 Plutarch
Proverb
Rainer M. Rilke
Samuel Butler
Samuel T.Coleridge
Stephen Hawking
Steve Jobs
Thomas B.Macaulay
Tony Blair
Virginia Woolf
Vladimir Putin
Walt Disney
Warren Buffett
William Penn
William Wordsworth
Quotes by Nationality:
Albanian
American
Arabian
Argentinian
Austrian
Brazilian
British
Canadian
Chilean
Chinese
Colombian
Cuba
Czech
 Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Indian
Iranian
Irish
Israeli
Italian
Italy
Japanese
 Jewish
Nepal
New Zealand
Polish
Portuguese
Roman
Romanian
Russian
Scottish
South African
Spanish
Swiss
Quotes by Profession:
Author
Businessman
Cartoonist
Comedian
Economist
Educator
Essayist
 Journalist
Leader
Mathematician
Musician
Novelist
Painter
Philosopher
 Physicist
Poet
Politician
Scientist
Writer
Anonymous
Proverb
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux Quotes

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

French poet and critic

Nationality: French
|
Type: Poet
|
Birth: 1636-1711
Page: 1
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]
» More quotes about: Cities
FacebookTwitter
No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
» More quotes about: Decency
FacebookTwitter
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
» More quotes about: Deeds
FacebookTwitter
Education must have two foundations -morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other,
» More quotes about: Education
FacebookTwitter
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
» More quotes about: Experience
FacebookTwitter
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
» More quotes about: Fame
FacebookTwitter
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
» More quotes about: Fashion
FacebookTwitter
How many fools does it take to make up a public?
» More quotes about: Fools
FacebookTwitter
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
» More quotes about: Friendship
FacebookTwitter
The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
» More quotes about: Humankind
FacebookTwitter
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
» More quotes about: Ideas
FacebookTwitter
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
» More quotes about: Ideas
FacebookTwitter
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
» More quotes about: Intelligence
FacebookTwitter
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
» More quotes about: Justice
FacebookTwitter
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
» More quotes about: Law
FacebookTwitter
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
» More quotes about: Life
FacebookTwitter
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
» More quotes about: Literature
FacebookTwitter
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human con
» More quotes about: Love
FacebookTwitter
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
» More quotes about: Men
FacebookTwitter
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
» More quotes about: Mind
FacebookTwitter
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
» More quotes about: Money
FacebookTwitter
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.
» More quotes about: Morality
FacebookTwitter
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
» More quotes about: Nations
FacebookTwitter
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
» More quotes about: Passion
FacebookTwitter
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
» More quotes about: Philosophy
FacebookTwitter
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
» More quotes about: Pleasure | Illusion
FacebookTwitter
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
» More quotes about: Public Opinion
FacebookTwitter
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
» More quotes about: Reason
FacebookTwitter
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
» More quotes about: Respect
FacebookTwitter
Success makes success, like money makes money.
» More quotes about: Success
FacebookTwitter
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
» More quotes about: Tactfulness
FacebookTwitter
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.
» More quotes about: Writers
FacebookTwitter
Page: 1