Antoine Rivarol Quotes & Sayings

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not. — Antoine Rivarol

The world is governed by love,
self-love. — Antoine Rivarol

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time. — Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds. — Antoine Rivarol

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius. — Antoine Rivarol

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself. — Antoine Rivarol

Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us. — Antoine Rivarol

Vices are often habits rather than passions. — Antoine Rivarol

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters. — Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. — Antoine Rivarol

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration. — Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice. — Antoine Rivarol

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. — Antoine Rivarol

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart. — Antoine Rivarol

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. — Antoine Rivarol

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy. — Antoine Rivarol

There is even the dignity of vice. — Antoine Rivarol

Mutability is written upon all things. — Antoine Rivarol

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue. — Antoine Rivarol

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it. — Antoine Rivarol

There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one. — Antoine Rivarol

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. — Antoine Rivarol

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. — Antoine Rivarol

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it. — Antoine Rivarol

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it. — Antoine Rivarol

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. — Antoine Rivarol

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. — Antoine Rivarol

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. — Antoine Rivarol

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. — Antoine Rivarol

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out. — Antoine Rivarol

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. — Antoine Rivarol

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. — Antoine Rivarol

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. — Antoine Rivarol

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. — Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events. — Antoine Rivarol

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still. — Antoine Rivarol

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. — Antoine Rivarol

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. — Antoine Rivarol

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion. — Antoine Rivarol

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit. — Antoine Rivarol

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such. — Antoine Rivarol

Silence never yet betrayed any one! — Antoine Rivarol

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. — Antoine Rivarol

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it. — Antoine Rivarol

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart. — Antoine Rivarol

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. — Antoine Rivarol

Tenderness is the infancy of love. — Antoine Rivarol

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. — Antoine Rivarol

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth. — Antoine Rivarol

Women read each other at a single glance. — Antoine Rivarol