28 Quotes by Jean Bruyere

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

There is a report that Piso is dead; it is a great loss; he was an honest man, who deserved to live longer; he was intelligent and agreeable, resolute and courageous, to be depended upon, generous and faithful.' Add: 'provided he is really dead'.

There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude.

There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.

Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much