Quotes of: Les Keyword

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy for it. ( )

Les Diaboliques

The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.

Le Baobab Fou

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.

Les jeunes filles

Le persone non cambiano, fanno solo momentanei passi fuori dal loro vero carattere, isolate azioni contrarie alla loro vera natura.

The Lie

Du jour où il nait, l'homme commence à mourir; c'est la vérité qu'incarne la Mère.

Le deuxième sexe I

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Les Misérables

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.

Les Misérables

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Les Misérables

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

Les Misérables

Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.

Les Misérables

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

Les Misérables

He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.

Les Misérables

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.

Les Misérables

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Les Misérables

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Les Misérables

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Les Misérables

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Les Misérables

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Les Misérables