Antoine Rivarol Quotes

"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Habits, Vices)

"To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Extremes, Reverie, Self)

"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: People, Wealth, Losing, Worry)

"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Thought, Speech)

"Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Talk, Will)

"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Life, Complaining, Future, Man, Past, Present)

"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Abuse, Doubt, Nothing)

"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Mystery, Pursuit)

"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Talent, Ideas, Interest)

"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Gold, Sun)

"Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Society, Talent, People, Wit, Witty, World)

"Memory always obeys the commands of the heart."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Heart, Memory)

"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors."
- Antoine Rivarol
(Related: Actors, Reason)