Alfred de Vigny Quotes

La vie est trop courte pour que nous en perdions une part précieuse à nous contrefaire.

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don’t let me hear a word about the rest

Εσύ μόνο μου φάνηκες σαν εκείνο που πάντα κανείς αναζητά

Les acteurs sont bien heureux, ils ont une gloire sans responsabilité.

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Le Silence est la Poésie même pour moi.

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires

Le Silence est la Poésie meme pour moi.

Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?

The soldier's lot is the most melancholy relic of barbarism (next to capital punishment) that lingers on among mankind.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

À voir ce que l’on fut sur terre et ce qu'on laisse
Seul le silence est grand; tout le reste est faiblesse.

Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.

In England the theatre has never been anything but a fashion for the upper classes or a debauch for the common people.