Charles Nodier Quotes & Sayings

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought. — Charles Nodier

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect. — Charles Nodier

Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished metal heights of the tall towers ceased to fade, like a still glowing coal in a spent brazier, which whitens gradually beneath the ashes, and soon is indistinguishable from the abandoned hearth, than a fearful murmur rises amongst them, their teeth chatter with despair and rage, they hasten and scatter in their dread, finding witches everywhere, and ghosts. It is night ... and Hell will gape once more. — Charles Nodier

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters. — Charles Nodier

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more. — Charles Nodier

In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember ... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms? ... — Charles Nodier

After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them. — Charles Nodier

To believe everything is to be an imbecile.
To deny everything is to be a fool. — Charles Nodier

Literature is the expression of society. — Charles Nodier

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. — Charles Nodier

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write. — Charles Nodier

Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life. — Charles Nodier

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. — Charles Nodier

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! — Charles Nodier

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined. — Charles Nodier