Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, also known as Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister, and of the Jacobin club...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 April 1741
CountryFrance
women way lovers
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
love-you love-is two
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins....
confidence love-you loving-yourself
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
love-is epidemics disease
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
love men trying
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
love two contact
The contact of two epidermises.
love husband passion
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
love-is reason amusing
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
love life friendship
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
french-writer laughed surely
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
failure intelligent energy
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
death sleep literature
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
foolish fools-and-foolishness
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
appetite composed dinners great society
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.