Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis famous quotes

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

#Vanity #Entering #World

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

#Judging #World #Guilty

Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

#Girl #Sex #Virtue

Do not sanction an absurdity.
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

#Sanctions #Absurdity

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

#Lonely #Memories #Sleep

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

#Book #Communication #Mind

Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

#Love #Giving #Firsts

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

#People #Born #Sensibility

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents...

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.