Deffand Quotes & Sayings

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Placing a box or a can or a bottle in a recycling bin doesn't mean you've recycled anything, and it doesn't make you a better, greener person: it just means you've outsourced your problem. Sometimes that outsourcing is near home; and sometimes it's overseas. But wherever it goes, the global market and demand for raw materials is the ultimate arbiter. Fortunately, if that realization leaves you feeling bad, there's always the alternative: stop buying so much crap in the first place. — Adam Minter

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive. — James Bovard

Everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants. — Chad Knaus

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses. — Madame Du Deffand

Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

We are all a volume on the shelf of the ... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. — Deb Caletti

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

The distance doesn't matter; it is only the first step that is difficult. — Mari De Vichy-Chamrond Marquise Du Deffand

If a dying Savior could bring us to God's grace, surely a living Savior can keep us in His grace. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe. — Usher

The first step is the hardest. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

She saw none of them in their natural state. She asserts that though there may be women distinguished as writers in England, there are no ladies who have any great conversational and political influence in society, of that kind which, during the old regime, was obtained in France by what they would call their femmes marquantes2, such as Madame de Tencin, Madame de Deffand, Mademoiselle de l'Espinasse. This remark stung me to the quick, for my country and for myself, and raised in me a foolish, vainglorious emulation, an ambition false in its objects, and unsuited to the manners, domestic habits, and public virtue of our country. I — Maria Edgeworth

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love. — Donald Miller

Deffand fell in love with him, and thought that at her age she could — Virginia Woolf

New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons. — Ryan Cayabyab

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them. — Virginia Woolf

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do. — Warwick Davis

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

It's the good loser who finally loses out. — Kin Hubbard

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born! — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can. — Alexander Wang

We saw you all dancing in the glory of the monster. — Jason Stearns

Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger ... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way. — Karin Dreijer Andersson