A. T. Mercier Quotes

“The only way to the top is by persistent intelligent hard work.”

“The only way to the top is by persistent intelligent hard work.”

“There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.”

“We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet – and this part will taste bitter as cyanide – that we have wasted too much, much too much strength and time on getting angry and getting even with others in a helpless shadow theater, which only we, who have suffered importantly, knew anything about ~ Night Train to Lisbon”

“Giving is Living”

“A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.”

“It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.”

“I absolutely love Sisley moisturising cream, which I use every morning; it also provides a great base for make-up, and I adore Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser for an overall finish.”

“For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, once or twice a month, confessing to his vocational sins – duplicity, for example – in the oblique forms provided by Catholic protocol. He’d grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit such misery and slaughter? But, in time, he had found consolation in a God beyond understanding and prayed for those he’d lost, for those he loved, and for an end to evil in the world.” ― Alan Furst, The Spies of Warsaw”

“People hide the truth to protect those they love!”