Custine Quotes & Sayings

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. — Marquis De Custine

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. — Marquis De Custine

This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith. — Dean Koontz

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything! — Tom Stoppard

Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift. — David Samuels

Never take your eyes off them," Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. "Didn't MacNeil ever tell you that? — John Flanagan

On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time. I doubted I was up to the task, but regardless, I entered from the rear, just to give myself the slightest mental edge. — Chip Kidd

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way. — Vincent Van Gogh

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible. — Marquis De Custine

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. — Rufus Wainwright

As long as we speak only in response to other people's disapproving silence, and as long as our words are but an apology, we ourselves are unable to judge the world fairly. Our life is an enigma to others, but their lives are an enigma to us, and our attempts to communicate with them are futile: we see them always as an audience, and in their eyes we are actors. No mind or character can withstand such false relations. They affect not only our behaviour but also our most intimate feelings. — Astolphe De Custine

You didn't realize it but you always were one of the Butcher's Boys. There you were, askin' to join the gang, when all along you were the 'eart and soul of it. — Julia Golding

In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is ... that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another. — Marquis De Custine

The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls. — Theodore Dalrymple

Awakening is to become aware of your awareness.
Be in the awareness of your presence, rather than being in the now. — Gian Kumar

And let me say this ahead of time, if someone dies in Psycho-Pass 2, it's Ubukata Tow's fault and not mine! — Gen Urobuchi

If you want to hear Him say, 'Well done,' you need to do something well. — Scott Wilson

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? — Marquis De Custine

Custine described them as 'automata inconvenienced with a soul': a description true, perhaps, of all bureaucrats fearful for their jobs but truest of all where power is both arbitrary and completely centralised, as it was in Russia. — Theodore Dalrymple

Happiness isn't about what happens to us - it's about how we perceive what happens to us. It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have, and start enjoying what we do have, our lives can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier. The time to be happy is now ... — Lyn Peters

There was peace in stillness, a serenity that couldn't be found anywhere else in this hot, fast, often terrible world. — Seanan McGuire

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. — Oscar Wilde

In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people. — Marquis De Custine

Does she think she can keep fucking with my head and weaving her devious webs thinking I'll always get caught in them? She's toying with my lust for her, my obsession, and I keep letting her. — Shantaye Brown

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. — Marquis De Custine

I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization. — Marquis De Custine