Beuve Quotes & Sayings

I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty. — Philip Yancey

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Stephanie glared at Skulduggery. "What was wrong with the door? You could have just come down the stairs and walked out the door. Why did you have to jump out of the window?"
"You know why," Skulduggery said, walking away.
Axle looked up, tears streaming from his eyes. "Why did he do that? Why?"
Stephanie glowered. "Because doors are for people with no imagination," she said, and led Axle to the car. — Derek Landy

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end? — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE
Tell me what to do; but it must be what I want you to tell me. — Idries Shah

I realize that Camilla is out very own statistical anomaly, an outlier that no one seems to know where to place. — Melissa Keil

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle . — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. — Peter Lewis Allen

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

For the first time, I see her. Fucking Sophia. I don't see her as a means to an end - a potential way to take down the bastard who killed my uncle. I see her. I see her as a woman, and she is beautiful. — Callie Hart

Do not allow a lack of one's own talent or confidence shackle the door prior to even opening it." (Ginger Susanoo, 2018). — Michael Rogers

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

If you want to succeed, limit yourself. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. - CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE — Eleanor Herman

Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity. — Aberjhani

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot. — Paul Cezanne