Quotes by Bruyere, Jean De La

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. >>

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good h >>

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. >>

Quotations about Mediocrity

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in >>

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why t >>

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. >>

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

Bruyere, Jean De La