Alexandre Père Quotations

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate

Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives

It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing

The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but can't remember having received it.

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen

Once mention the word independence, or that of Italy, and he ( Giuseppe Garibaldi) becomes a volcano in eruption

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws

A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - sometimes three