Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.”

“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.”

“When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.”

“Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.”

“A woman is like your shadow follow her she flies fly from her she follows.”

“Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.”

“The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public?”

“Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.”

“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”

“If a woman were about to proceed to her execution she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.”