Mazarin Cardinal Quotes & Sayings

So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star. — William Mathews

I trust no one, not even myself. — Joseph Stalin

Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist. — Alexandre Dumas

The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like. — Cardinal Mazarin

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible. — Andy Taylor

I was thinking about this tonight, actually, that maybe I want strangers to think I'm cool since people who actually know me don't. — John Green

I've been acting since I was a little kid. It was my escape from my day which had to do with a father leaving, and a mother not being home, and her struggling and doing her best and all that. But it wasn't fun. I would go into theater class. If she were a stay-at-home mom, I wouldn't have that discomfort inside that kept me pushing. — Daphne Zuniga

Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go? — Cardinal Mazarin

I don't believe in symbolic gods.I believe that god exists all around us.In the flow of the river,in the rustle of the trees,in the whisper of the winds. He speaks to us all the time.all we need to do is listen. — Amish Tripathi

Great rogues hang the little ones. — Cardinal Mazarin

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband. — Cardinal Mazarin

Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely. — Ally Condie

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. — Lord Chesterfield