item: #1 of 20 id: 29402 author: Various title: The French Immortals: Quotes and Images, Complete date: None words: 6581 flesch: 21 summary: Jules Caretie A ROMANCE OF YOUTH Francois Coppee FROMONT AND RISLER Alphonse Daudet CINQ MARS Alfred de Vigny M.M. AND BEBE Gustave Droz MONSIEUR DE CAMORS Octave Feuillet THE RED LILY Anatole France ABBE CONSTANTIN Ludovic Halevey CHRYSANTHEME Pierre Loti CONSCIENCE Hector Malot ZIBELINE Phillipe de Massa THE CHILD OF A CENTURY   Alfred de Musset SERGE PANINE   George Ohnet AN ATTIC PHILOSOPHER   Emile Souvestre A WOODLAND QUEEN   Andre Theuriet THE INK STAIN, By Rene Bazin All that a name is to a street� its honor, its spouse Came not in single spies, but in battalions Distrust first impulse Felix culpa Happy men don't need company Hard that one can not live one's life over twice If trouble awaits us, hope will steal us a happy hour or two Lends�I should say gives Men forget sooner Natural only when alone, and talk well only to themselves Obstacles are the salt of all our joys One doesn't offer apologies to a man in his wrath People meeting to have it out usually say nothing at first Silence, alas! keywords: day; happiness; life; love; man; men; people; pleasure; things; time; women; world cache: 29402.txt plain text: 29402.txt item: #2 of 20 id: 7567 author: Bazin, René title: Widger's Quotes and Images from The Ink Stain by René Bazin The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 242 flesch: 73 summary: All that a name is to a street--its honor, its spouse Came not in single spies, but in battalions Distrust first impulse Felix culpa Happy men don't need company Hard that one can not live one's life over twice If trouble awaits us, hope will steal us a happy hour or two Lends--I should say gives Men forget sooner Natural only when alone, and talk well only to themselves Obstacles are the salt of all our joys One doesn't offer apologies to a man in his wrath People meeting to have it out usually say nothing at first Silence, alas! keywords: life cache: 7567.txt plain text: 7567.txt item: #3 of 20 id: 7568 author: Bentzon, Th. title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Jacqueline by Therese Bentzon The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 249 flesch: 29 summary: Pride supplies some sufferers with necessary courage Seemed to enjoy themselves, or made believe they did Seldom troubled himself to please any one he did not care for Small women ought not to grow stout Sympathetic listening, never having herself anything to say The bandage love ties over the eyes of men The worst husband is always better than none This unending warfare we call love Unwilling to leave him to the repose he needed Waste all that upon a thing that nobody will ever look at Women who are thirty-five should never weep This eBook was produced by David Widger JACQUELINE By Therese Bentzon (Mme. Blanc) keywords: women cache: 7568.txt plain text: 7568.txt item: #4 of 20 id: 7569 author: Bernard, Charles de title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 246 flesch: 42 summary: Let ultra-modesty destroy poetry Love is a fire whose heat dies out for want of fuel Mania for fearing that she may be compromised Material in you to make one of Cooper's redskins Misfortunes never come single No woman is unattainable, except when she loves another Obstinacy of drunkenness Recourse to concessions is often as fatal to women as to kings Regards his happiness as a proof of superiority She said yes, so as not to say no These are things that one admits only to himself Those whom they most amuse are those who are best worth amusing Topics that occupy people who meet for the first time Trying to conceal by a smile (a blush) This eBook was produced by David Widger GERFAUT By Charles de Bernard Antipathy for her husband bordering upon aversion Attractions that difficulties give to pleasure Attractive abyss of drunkenness Consented to become a wife so as not to remain a maiden Despotic tone which a woman assumes when sure of her empire Evident that the man was above his costume; a rare thing! keywords: woman cache: 7569.txt plain text: 7569.txt item: #5 of 20 id: 7570 author: Bourget, Paul title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 273 flesch: -50 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger COSMOPOLIS By Paul Bourget Conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity Despotism natural to puissant personalities Egyptian tobacco, mixed with opium and saltpetre Follow their thoughts instead of heeding objects Has as much sense as the handle of a basket Have never known in the morning what I would do in the evening I no longer love you Imagine what it would be never to have been born Mediocre sensibility Melancholy problem of the birth and death of love Mobile and complaisant conscience had already forgiven himself No flies enter a closed mouth Not an excuse, but an explanation of your conduct One of those trustful men who did not judge when they loved Only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood Pitiful checker-board of life Scarcely a shade of gentle condescension Sufficed him to conceive the plan of a reparation That suffering which curses but does not pardon That you can aid them in leading better lives? The forests have taught man liberty There is an intelligent man, who never questions his ideas There is always and everywhere a duty to fulfil Thinking it better not to lie on minor points Too prudent to risk or gain much Walked at the rapid pace characteristic of monomaniacs Words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: love cache: 7570.txt plain text: 7570.txt item: #6 of 20 id: 7571 author: Claretie, Jules title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Zilah by Jules Claretie The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 329 flesch: 46 summary: Life is a tempest Man who expects nothing of life except its ending Nervous natures, as prompt to hope as to despair No answer to make to one who has no right to question me Not only his last love, but his only love Nothing ever astonishes me One of those beings who die, as they have lived, children Pessimism of to-day sneering at his confidence of yesterday Playing checkers, that mimic warfare of old men Poverty brings wrinkles Sufferer becomes, as it were, enamored of his own agony Superstition which forbids one to proclaim his happiness Taken the times as they are The Hungarian was created on horseback There were too many discussions, and not enough action Unable to speak, for each word would have been a sob What matters it how much we suffer Why should I read the newspapers? This eBook was produced by David Widger PRINCE ZILAH keywords: life cache: 7571.txt plain text: 7571.txt item: #7 of 20 id: 7572 author: Coppée, François title: Widger's Quotes and Images from A Romance of Youth by François Coppée The French Immortals: Quotes And Images date: None words: 341 flesch: 45 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger A ROMANCE OF YOUTH By Francois Coppee Break in his memory, like a book with several leaves torn out Dreams, instead of living Egotists and cowards always have a reason for everything Eternally condemned to kill each other in order to live Fortunate enough to keep those one loves God forgive the timid and the prattler! The sincere age when one thinks aloud Tired smile of those who have not long to live Trees are like men; there are some that have no luck Universal suffrage, with its accustomed intelligence Upon my word, there are no ugly ones (women) Very young, and was in love with love Voice of the heart which alone has power to reach the heart Were certain against all reason When he sings, it is because he has something to sing about If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: leaves cache: 7572.txt plain text: 7572.txt item: #8 of 20 id: 7573 author: Daudet, Alphonse title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Fromont and Risler by Alphonse Daudet The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 276 flesch: 19 summary: No one has ever been able to find out what her thoughts were Pass half the day in procuring two cakes, worth three sous She was of those who disdain no compliment Such artificial enjoyment, such idiotic laughter Superiority of the man who does nothing over the man who works Terrible revenge she would take hereafter for her sufferings The poor must pay for all their enjoyments The groom isn't handsome, but the bride's as pretty as a picture Void in her heart, a place made ready for disasters to come Wiping his forehead ostentatiously Word sacrifice, so vague on careless lips Would have liked him to be blind only so far as he was concerned If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: man cache: 7573.txt plain text: 7573.txt item: #9 of 20 id: 7574 author: Vigny, Alfred de title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Cinq Mars by Alfred de Vigny The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 587 flesch: 13 summary: It is a drawing-room tiger A queen's country is where her throne is Adopted fact is always better composed than the real one Advantage that a calm temper gives one over men All that he said, I had already thought Always the first word which is the most difficult to say Ambition is the saddest of all hopes Art is the chosen truth Artificialities of style of that period Artistic Truth, more lofty than the True As Homer says, smiling under tears Assume with others the mien they wore toward him But how avenge one's self on silence? Dare now to be silent when I have told you these things Daylight is detrimental to them Deny the spirit of self-sacrifice Difference which I find between Truth in art and the True in fac Doubt, the greatest misery of love Friendship exists only in independence and a kind of equality Happy is he who does not outlive his youth Hatred of everything which is superior to myself He did not blush to be a man, and he spoke to men with force Hermits can not refrain from inquiring what men say of them History too was a work of art I have burned all the bridges behind me In pitying me he forgot himself In every age we laugh at the costume of our fathers In times like these we must see all and say all It is not now what it used to be keywords: men; truth cache: 7574.txt plain text: 7574.txt item: #10 of 20 id: 7575 author: Droz, Gustave title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé by Gustave Droz The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 479 flesch: -21 summary: And I shall say 'damn it,' for I shall then be grown up Answer No, but with a little kiss which means Yes As regards love, intention and deed are the same In his future arrange laurels for a little crown for your own It (science) dreams, too; it supposes It is silly to blush under certain circumstances Learned to love others by embracing their own children Life is not so sweet for us to risk ourselves in it singlehanded Love in marriage is, as a rule, too much at his ease Man is but one of the links of an immense chain Rather do not give--make yourself sought after Reckon yourself happy if in your husband you find a lover Recollection of past dangers to increase the present joy Respect him so that he may respect you Shelter himself in the arms of the weak and recover courage Sometimes like to deck the future in the garments of the past The heart requires gradual changes The future that is rent away The recollection of that moment lasts for a lifetime The future promises, it is the present that pays Their love requires a return There are pious falsehoods which the Church excuses Ties that unite children to parents are unloosed Ties which unite parents to children are broken To be able to smoke a cigar without being sick To love is a great deal--To know how to love is everything We are simple to this degree, that we do not think we are When time has softened your grief Why mankind has chosen to call marriage a man-trap If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: love cache: 7575.txt plain text: 7575.txt item: #11 of 20 id: 7576 author: Feuillet, Octave title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Monsieur de Camors by Octave Feuillet The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 441 flesch: 15 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger MONSIEUR DE CAMORS By Octave Feuillet A man never should kneel unless sure of rising a conqueror A defensive attitude is never agreeable to a man Bad to fear the opinion of people one despises Believing that it is for virtue's sake alone such men love them Camors refused, hesitated, made objections, and consented Confounding progress with discord, liberty with license Contempt for men is the beginning of wisdom Cried out, with the blunt candor of his age Dangers of liberty outweighed its benefits Demanded of him imperatively--the time of day Determined to cultivate ability rather than scrupulousness Disenchantment which follows possession Do not get angry. Have not that pleasure, it is useless to incur the penalties He is charming, for one always feels in danger near him Inconstancy of heart is the special attribute of man Intemperance of her zeal and the acrimony of her bigotry Knew her danger, and, unlike most of them, she did not love it Man, if he will it, need not grow old: the lion must Never can make revolutions with gloves on Once an excellent remedy, is a detestable regimen One of those pious persons who always think evil Pleasures of an independent code of morals Police regulations known as religion Principles alone, without faith in some higher sanction Property of all who are strong enough to stand it Put herself on good terms with God, in case He should exist Semel insanivimus omnes.' keywords: man cache: 7576.txt plain text: 7576.txt item: #12 of 20 id: 7577 author: France, Anatole title: Widger's Quotes and Images from The Red Lily by Anatole France The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 903 flesch: 28 summary: She is happy, since she likes to remember Should like better to do an immoral thing than a cruel one Simple people who doubt neither themselves nor others Since she was in love, she had lost prudence So well satisfied with his reply that he repeated it twice Superior men sometimes lack cleverness That sort of cold charity which is called altruism That if we live the reason is that we hope That absurd and generous fury for ownership The most radical breviary of scepticism since Montaigne The door of one's room opens on the infinite The past is the only human reality -- Everything that is, is past The one whom you will love and who will love you will harm you The violent pleasure of losing The discouragement which the irreparable gives The real support of a government is the Opposition The politician never should be in advance of circumstances There is nothing good except to ignore and to forget There are many grand and strong things which you do not feel They are the coffin saying: 'I am the cradle' To be beautiful, must a woman have that thin form Trying to make Therese admire what she did not know Umbrellas, like black turtles under the watery skies Unfortunate creature who is the plaything of life Let us give to men irony and pity as witnesses and judges Life as a whole is too vast and too remote Life is made up of just such trifles Life is not a great thing Little that we can do when we are powerful keywords: life; love cache: 7577.txt plain text: 7577.txt item: #13 of 20 id: 7578 author: Halévy, Ludovic title: Widger's Quotes and Images from L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halévy The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 249 flesch: 58 summary: The folly lies in keeping it Often been compared to Eugene Sue, but his touch is lighter One half of his life belonged to the poor One may think of marrying, but one ought not to try to marry Succeeded in wearying him by her importunities and tenderness The women have enough religion for the men The history of good people is often monotonous or painful To learn to obey is the only way of learning to command If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. In order to make money, the first thing is to have no need of it Love and tranquillity seldom dwell at peace in the same heart Never foolish to spend money. keywords: money cache: 7578.txt plain text: 7578.txt item: #14 of 20 id: 7579 author: Loti, Pierre title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 179 flesch: -10 summary: the natural perversity of inanimate things Contemptuous pity, both for my suspicions and the cause of them Dull hours spent in idle and diffuse conversation Efforts to arrange matters we succeed often only in disarranging Found nothing that answered to my indefinable expectations Habit turns into a makeshift of attachment I know not what lost home that I have failed to find Irritating laugh which is peculiar to Japan Japanese habit of expressing myself with excessive politeness Ordinary, trivial, every-day objects Prayers swallowed like pills by invalids at a distance Seeking for a change which can no longer be found Trees, dwarfed by a Japanese process When the inattentive spirits are not listening Which I should find amusing in any one else,--any one I loved If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. This eBook was produced by David Widger CHRYSANTHEME By Pierre Loti Ah! keywords: find cache: 7579.txt plain text: 7579.txt item: #15 of 20 id: 7580 author: Malot, Hector title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Conscience by Hector Malot The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 330 flesch: 34 summary: As ignorant as a schoolmaster As free from prejudices as one may be, one always retains a few Confidence in one's self is strength, but it is also weakness Conscience is a bad weighing-machine Conscience is only an affair of environment and of education Find it more easy to make myself feared than loved For the rest of his life he would be the prisoner of his crime Force, which is the last word of the philosophy of life He did not sleep, so much the better! Neither so simple nor so easy as they at first appeared One does not judge those whom one loves People whose principle was never to pay a doctor Power to work, that was never disturbed or weakened by anything Reason before the deed, and not after Repeated and explained what he had already said and explained She could not bear contempt The strong walk alone because they need no one We are so unhappy that our souls are weak against joy We weep, we do not complain Will not admit that conscience is the proper guide of our action You love me, therefore you do not know me If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: conscience cache: 7580.txt plain text: 7580.txt item: #16 of 20 id: 7581 author: Massa, Philippe, marquis de title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Zibeline by Phillipe de Massa The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 198 flesch: 44 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger ZIBELINE By Phillipe de Massa All that was illogical in our social code Ambiguity has no place, nor has compromise But if this is our supreme farewell, do not tell me so! Every man is his own master in his choice of liaisons If I do not give all I give nothing Indulgence of which they stand in need themselves Life goes on, and that is less gay than the stories Men admired her; the women sought some point to criticise Only a man, wavering and changeable keywords: ebook cache: 7581.txt plain text: 7581.txt item: #17 of 20 id: 7582 author: Musset, Alfred de title: Widger's Quotes and Images from The Confession of a Child of the Century by Alfred de Musset The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 702 flesch: 26 summary: she cried, you will never know how to love We have had a mass celebrated, and it cost us a large sum What you take for love is nothing more than desire What human word will ever express thy slightest caress When passion sways man, reason follows him weeping and warning Who has told you that tears can wash away the stains of guilt Wine suffuses the face as if to prevent shame appearing there You believe in what is said here below and not in what is done You play with happiness as a child plays with a rattle You turn the leaves of dead books Your great weapon is silence Youth is to judge of the world from first impressions If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. It is a pity that you must seek pastimes Make a shroud of your virtue in which to bury your crimes Man who suffers wishes to make her whom he loves suffer Men doubted everything: the young men denied everything No longer esteemed her highly enough to be jealous of her Of all the sisters of love, the most beautiful is pity Perfection does not exist Pure caprice that I myself mistook for a flash of reason Quarrel had been, so to speak, less sad than our reconciliation Reading the Memoirs of Constant Resorted to exaggeration in order to appear original Sceptic regrets the faith he has lost the power to regain Seven who are always the same: the first is called hope keywords: life; love cache: 7582.txt plain text: 7582.txt item: #18 of 20 id: 7583 author: Ohnet, Georges title: Widger's Quotes and Images from Serge Panine by George Ohnet The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 425 flesch: 31 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger SERGE PANINE By George Ohnet A man weeps with difficulty before a woman A uniform is the only garb which can hide poverty honorably Antagonism to plutocracy and hatred of aristocrats Because they moved, they thought they were progressing Cowardly in trouble as he had been insolent in prosperity Enough to be nobody's unless I belong to him Even those who do not love her desire to know her Everywhere was feverish excitement, dissipation, and nullity Flayed and roasted alive by the critics Forget a dream and accept a reality Hard workers are pitiful lovers He lost his time, his money, his hair, his illusions Is it by law only that you wish to keep me? keywords: man cache: 7583.txt plain text: 7583.txt item: #19 of 20 id: 7584 author: Souvestre, Émile title: Widger's Quotes and Images from An Attic Philosopher in Paris by Émile Souvestre The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 507 flesch: 21 summary: My patronage has become her property No one is so unhappy as to have nothing to give Not desirous to teach goodness Nothing is dishonorable which is useful Our tempers are like an opera-glass Poverty, you see, is a famous schoolmistress Power of necessity Prisoners of work Progress can never be forced on without danger Question is not to discover what will suit us Richer than France herself, for I have no deficit in my budget Ruining myself, but we must all have our Carnival Satisfy our wants, if we know how to set bounds to them Sensible man, who has observed much and speaks little So much confidence at first, so much doubt at las Sullen tempers are excited by the patience of their victims The happiness of the wise man costs but little The man in power gives up his peace Two thirds of human existence are wasted in hesitation Virtue made friends, but she did not take pupils We do not understand that others may live on their own account Do they understand what makes them so gay? Each of us regards himself as the mirror of the community Ease with which the poor forget their wretchedness Every one keeps his holidays in his own way Fame and power are gifts that are dearly bought Favorite and conclusive answer of his class--I know Fear of losing a moment from business Finishes his sin thoroughly before he begins to repent Fortune sells what we believe she gives Her kindness, which never sleeps Houses are vessels which take mere passengers Hubbub of questions which waited for no reply I make it a rule never to have any hope Ignorant of what there is to wish for Looks on an accomplished duty neither as a merit nor a grievance Make himself a name: he becomes public property Moderation is the great social virtue More stir than work keywords: know; work cache: 7584.txt plain text: 7584.txt item: #20 of 20 id: 7585 author: Theuriet, André title: Widger's Quotes and Images from A Woodland Queen by André Theuriet The French Immortals: Quotes and Images date: None words: 296 flesch: 13 summary: This eBook was produced by David Widger A WOODLAND QUEEN By Andre Theuriet Accustomed to hide what I think Amusements they offered were either wearisome or repugnant Consoled himself with one of the pious commonplaces Dreaded the monotonous regularity of conjugal life Fawning duplicity Had not been spoiled by Fortune's gifts How small a space man occupies on the earth Hypocritical grievances I am not in the habit of consulting the law I measure others by myself It does not mend matters to give way like that Like all timid persons, he took refuge in a moody silence More disposed to discover evil than good Nature's cold indifference to our sufferings Vague hope came over him that all would come right Vexed, act in direct contradiction to their own wishes Women: they are more bitter than death Yield to their customs, and not pooh- pooh their amusements You have considerable patience for a lover You must be pleased with yourself--that is more essential If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation. keywords: search operation cache: 7585.txt plain text: 7585.txt