Quotes About Perception

All is not gold that glitters,'" he began, his eyes flaming. "That's not it," said Mistigris. "'All is not old that titters.' You'll never get on in diplomacy if you don't know your proverbs better than that.

Mes enfants, you mustn't go at things head-on, you are too weak; take it from me and take it from an angle... Play dead, play the sleeping dog.

he began to weep on his own account. Observing this grief, the abbe dried his pupil's tears, bidding him observe that the good woman took her snuff most offensively, and was becoming so ugly and deaf and tedious that he ought to return thanks for her death.

Love is a maker of false coin, continually changing copper pennies into gold-pieces, and sometimes turning its real gold into copper.

a word from an old man in the ears of the young ones is the same as the words of youth in the ears of an elder: a rattle which sense dodges understanding!

The elder, Mademoiselle Virginie, was the very image of her mother. Madame Guillaume, daughter of the Sieur Chevrel, sat so upright in the stool behind her desk, that more than once she had heard some wag bet that she was a stuffed figure.

L'un des malheurs auxquels sont soumises les grandes intelligences, c'est de comprendre forcément toutes choses, les vices aussi bien que les vertus.

People suffer in their chests," said Rogron, who liked to hear himself harangue, "or they have toothache, headache, pains in their feet or stomach, but no one has pains everywhere. What do you mean by everywhere? I can tell you; 'everywhere' means nowhere. Don't you know what you are doing? — you are complaining for complaining's sake.

A woman over forty years old!" exclaimed the baroness. "I have heard say in Ireland that a woman of this description is the most dangerous mistress a young man can have.

Ondan bir kaç sonra anlad?m ki bir kad?n?n susmas?nda gizli bir anlam vard?r, bol bol konu?mada ise nice dü?ünceler sakl?d?r.

The man is mad!" exclaimed Bianchon. "You think so, do you?" said his uncle. "If you listen to only one bell, you hear only one sound.

?nsan?n manevi yarad?l??? maddi yarad?l???ndan ?u bak?mdan ayr?l?r: Bunda hiçbir ?ey mutlak de?ildir; izlenimlerin yo?unlu?u bir olay çevresine toplad???m?z ki?ilere ya da dü?üncelere göre de?i?ir.

there was no such piece of driveling nonsense in this world as a certificate of birth; that plenty of women were younger at forty than many a girl of twenty; and, to come to the point, that a woman is no older than she looks.

Paris is a queer place," said Lucien; it seemed to him that he saw self-interest squatting in every corner.

Die Frauen reden Männern, die sie zu Schafen gemacht haben, immer ein, sie seien Löwen und hätten einen eisernen Charakter.

What is a feeling if not a world in a thought?

For my own part, I know of nothing more dreadful to see than an old man's thoughts on a child's forehead; even blasphemy from girlish lips is less monstrous.

It might have been supposed that, like a princess in the Arabian Nights, Emilie was rich enough and beautiful enough to choose from among all the princes in the world. Her objections were each more preposterous than the last: one had too thick knees and was bow-legged, another was short-sighted, this one's name was Durand, that one limped, and almost all were too fat.

A paris on trouve moyen de vous assassiner un homme en disant " il a bon cœur". Cette phrase veut dire " le pauvre garçon est bête comme un rhinocéros

Lucien ne reconnut pas sa Louise dans cette chambre froide, sans soleil, à rideaux passés, dont le carreau frotté semblait misérable, où le meuble était usé, de mauvais goût, vieux ou d'occasion. Il est en effet certaines personnes qui n'ont plus ni le même aspect ni la même valeur, une fois séparées des figures, des choses, des lieux qui leur servent de cadre. Les

These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light.

You misjudge us because you do not know us. —W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Talented Tenth

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

What is art Nature concentrated.