Andreas Hoistad Quotes

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

God`s only excuse is that he does not exist.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

If you don`t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Our true passions are selfish.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.