List of Remy de Gourmont Quotes

Born Of The Sensibility, Art Sows And Creates Life In Its Turn.

An Imbecile Is Never Bored: He Contemplates Himself.

Most Men Who Rail Against Women Are Railing At One Woman Only.

A Definition Is A Sack Of Flour Compressed Into A Thimble

If The Secret Of Being A Bore Is To Tell All, The Secret Of Pleasing Is To Say Just Enough To Be -not Understood, But Divined.

The Ever-present Phenomenon Ceases To Exist For Our Senses. It Was A City Dweller, Or A Prisoner, Or A Blind Man Suddenly Given His Sight, Who First Noted Natural Beauty.

Cliche Refers To Words, Commonplace To Ideas. Cliche Describes The Form Or The Letter, Commonplace The Substance Or Spirit. To Confuse Them Is To Confuse The Thought With The Expression Of The Thought. The Cliche Is Immediately Perceivable; The Commonplace Very Often Escapes Notice If Decked Out In Original Dress. There Are Few Examples, In Any Literature, Of New Ideas Expressed In Original Form. The Most Critical Mind Must Often Be Content With One Or The Other Of These Pleasures, Only Too Happy When It Is Not Deprived Of Both At Once, Which Is Not Too Rarely The Case.

Women Are The Simple, And Poets The Superior, Artisans Of Language... The Intervention Of Grammarians Is Almost Always Bad.

Art Is The Flower Of Life And, As Seed, It Gives Back Life.

Good Books Are Irrefutable, And Bad Books Refute Themselves.

In Order To Understand Life It Is Not Only Necessary Not To Be Indifferent To Men, But Not To Be Indifferent To Flocks, To Trees. One Should Be Indifferent To Nothing.

Man, In Spite Of His Tendency Towards Mendacity, Has A Great Respect For What He Calls The Truth. Truth Is His Staff In His Voyage Through Life; Commonplaces Are The Bread In His Bag And The Wine In His Jug.