Quotes About Marquis

But the woman who stood knitting looked up steadily, and looked the Marquis in the face.

I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.

Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the doorknob and came back.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Tout petit prince a des ambassadeurs, Tout marquis veut avoir des pages.

Anyone who is known as the Mysterious Marquis ought to have far more interesting reasons for his behavior than a stupid dispute with Sir Hilary.