Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

"A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print."
- Marguerite Yourcenar
(Related: Family, Beginning, Misfortune, Writer)

"Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself."
- Marguerite Yourcenar
(Related: Men, Women, Temple, Care)

"I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily."
- Marguerite Yourcenar
(Related: Truth, Lie, Order)