17 Quotes by Paul Bourget

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.

Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.

Il faut vivre comme on pense, sans quoi l'on finira par penser comme on a vécu.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.