Quotes by Chamfort

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves...

#Action, #Life

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

#Age, #Funny

A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she...

#Women

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must...

#Happiness

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

#Love

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which...

#Falsehood, #Love, #Truth

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

#Love

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test...

#Money

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the...

#Books

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day.

#Books

Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the...

#Fashion

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than...

#Mankind