Marivaux Quotes & Sayings

The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things. — Michael Corbat

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic. — Evelyn Waugh

We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence. — Madeline Miller

I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs. — Caroline Norton

How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit? — Abraham H. Maslow

I can't go back there. Back to a time when I had a weakness. When I lost control, and lost loved ones and territories in the process. The WUN still remains out of my hands. If I woke her now, what would I lose next? — Laura Thalassa

In history people dressed much better than we do today. — Vivienne Westwood

Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much. — Pierre De Marivaux

She knew there were only small joys in life
the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through
and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off. — Lorrie Moore

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love. — Pierre De Marivaux

Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. — Thomas Gray

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. — Lisa Gardner

You think you can just rid me from your thoughts? You can't. You're mine, Emily. Fucking mine, he growled.
McHugh, Gail (2013-09-17). Collide: Book One in the Collide Series (p. 363). Atria Books. Kindle Edition. — Gail McHugh

United will break caution to the wind — Glenn Hoddle

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me. — Amy Tan

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough. — Pierre De Marivaux

Deep in the muddled darkness six copper pheasant feathers glowed in a cradle of blackthorn. — Helen Macdonald

Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers. — Daniel H. Pink