401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.