Quotes by Jean Rostand

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

#Jean Rostand

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

#Jean Rostand

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

#Admiration

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined...

#Evolution, #Mankin

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror;...

#God, #Killing

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do...

#Language

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate...

#Literature

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a...

#Marriage, #Men And Women, #Quarrels

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing...

#Quotations

To be an adult is to be alone.

#Feeling Lonely, #Lonely