Marquis de Custine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
-- Marquis de Custine

#Reason
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.
-- Marquis de Custine

#Lying #Grace #Doe
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
-- Marquis de Custine

#Complicated #Rigor #Circumstances
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
-- Marquis de Custine

#Complaining #Painful #Annoyance
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!
-- Marquis de Custine

#Lying #Heart #Men
I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.
-- Marquis de Custine

#Country #Believe #Civilization
In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.
-- Marquis de Custine

#Government #Russia #People
In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.
-- Marquis de Custine

#Taken #Believe #Administration

There are different reasons to make movies.
Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this wonâ€™t work. We will never work.
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason onlyâ€¦.Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Marquis de Custine famous quotes

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