Tencin Quotes & Sayings

History is not an escalator. — Max Eastman

I stood and watched
the final sunset as the
world was ending
light that once would fall
was now ascending — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

You don't have anything, you don't know anything, you're just a noise like a fart in somebody's pants, Segura said. — James Lee Burke

Learn to win a lady's faith
Nobly, as the thing is high;
Bravely as for life and death -
With a loyal gravity.
Lead her from the festive boards,
Point her to the starry skies,
Guard her, by your truthful words,
Pure from courtship's flatteries. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications. — Alberto Gonzales

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. — Claudine Guerin De Tencin

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear? — F. Paul Wilson

One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is. — Claudine Guerin De Tencin

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers. — Hope Davis

Compulsion is attraction without reason. — Candice Raquel Lee

Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers. — John Collier

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