Bastienne Salners Quotes & Sayings

The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair ... the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair. — Blaise Pascal

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better. — Blaise Pascal

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before. — Elsie De Wolfe

Her dress is the colour of marmalade, she chirps songs that have no words — Sarah Kay

Buck up," she whispered to him. "Don't be such a wuss. — Thea Harrison