More Quotes by Alphonse Daudet
La meilleure facon d'imposer une idée aux autres, c'est de leur faire croire qu'elle vient d'eux
The prisoner imagines freedom to be more wonderful than it is.
Plus grands sont les amours, plus courte est la mémoire Vous l’avez oublié, nous en sommes tous là ; Le cœur le plus aimant n’est qu’une vaste armoire. On fait deux tours, et puis voilà.
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures, that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
Çok az kişinin anlayıp hakkını vereceği bir uğraş için neden bu kadar çabaladığını sorduklarında şu dediklerimi hatırka: 'Birkaç kişi anlasa da bana yeter, bir kişi bile yeter, hatta kimse anlamasa da razıyım.
El hombre del Mediodía no miente, se equivoca. No dice siempre la verdad, pero cree que la dice… Para él, su mentira no es mentira. Es una especie de espejismo.
