Famous Chamfort Quotations

First 1 Last 
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed"
by Chamfort
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."
by Nicholas Chamfort
"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."
by Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
"All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed."
by Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
by Nicholas Chamfort
"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are."
by Nicholas Chamfort
"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are."
by Nicholas Chamfort
"Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before."
by Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
"Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all."
by Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
"The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless."
by Nicholas Chamfort
"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness."
by Chamfort
"The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"How many fools does it take to make up a public?"
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."
by Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
"Education must have two foundations—morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defence for self against the vices of others. By letting..."
by Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
by Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort


Hire a Writer