Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson
Cultivated Virtues
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson
You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Max Beerbohm – Zuleika Dobson
Why do grown-ups always complicate things?
Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
Anarchy is letting things take their course.
Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up.
Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
I don’t talk to myself. I talk to the other person I am.
Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
I refuse to be hamstrung by someone else’s absurdity.
Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro