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Antoine Rivarol Quotes

Antoine Rivarol Quotes: A Curated Collection of the Best Inspirational, Motivational, and Thought-Provoking Sayings Written by Antoine Rivarol

Antoine Rivarol
Total Quotes 61
There Is Nothing So Unready As Readiness Of Wit.
Wit
Readiness
Mutability Is Written Upon All Things.
Decay
All Things
Mutability
There Is Even The Dignity Of Vice.
Vices
Dignity
Reason Is The Historian, But Passions Are The Actors.
Passion
Actors
Reason
Very Nice Couplet, Although There Are Dull Stretches.
Art
Nice
Dull
Wrong Is Wrong; No Fallacy Can Hide It, No Subterfuge Cover It So Shrewdly But That The All-seeing One Will Discover And Punish It.
Subterfuge
Fallacy
Seeing
To Be Ungrateful Is To Be Unnatural. The Head May Be Thus Guilty, Not The Heart.
Heart
Ungrateful
May
It Is Said That Friendship Between Women Is Only A Suspension Of Hostilities.
Friendship
Said
Suspension
The Subtle Sauce Of Malice Is Often Indulged In By Maidens Of Uncertain Age, Over Their Tea.
Gossip
Tea
Age
True Felicity Consists Of Its Own Consciousness.
Consciousness
Felicity
The Despotism Of Will In Ideas Is Styled Plan, Project, Character, Obstinacy; Its Despotism In Desires Is Called Passion.
Passion
Character
Ideas
There Are Some Women Who Are Flirts Upon Principle; They Consider It Their Duty To Make Themselves As Pleasing As Possible To Every One.
Flirting
Principles
Duty

About Antoine Rivarol

  • Born: June 26, 1753
  • Died: April 11, 1801
  • Occupation: Writer