Quotes by Custine, Marquis De

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its m >>

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted >>

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best >>

Quotations about Grace

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at >>

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. >>

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often >>

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

Custine, Marquis De