Doux Quotes & Sayings

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'. — Mahatma Gandhi

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us. — Joan D. Chittister

This has been a convenience to me in travelling, where my companions have been sometimes very unhappy for want of a suitable gratification of their more delicate, because better instructed, tastes and appetites. — Anonymous

An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,
This art of writing billet-doux
In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies. — Leigh Hunt

Happy the poet who with ease can steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
[Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.] — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Does this dental fantasy of yours take place in, like, 1973? — Rainbow Rowell

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought. — Walter Mosley

Glances are the first billets-doux of love. — Ninon De L'Enclos

If one makes himself master of one vital book, he shall never become a commonplace man. — James Lowell

Twas Noah who first planted the vine
And mended his morals by drinking its wine. — Benjamin Franklin

You cannot hide from danger. Death floats on the air, creeps through the window, comes with the handshake of a stranger. If we stop living because we fear death, then we have already died.
-Raistlin Majere — Margaret Weis

When someone comes to you, let them feel like they are in your universe where they belong. — Debasish Mridha

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. — Clarence Darrow

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not. — Malcolm Forbes

I woan let you go back to that boy
not until you give me one bec doux." A sweet kiss. Then he reached forward, unlacing the ribbon from my hair.
"What are you doing?" I murmured.
"Souvenir." He put it in his pocket, and for some reason that struck me as the sexiest thing I'd ever seen. — Kresley Cole