“Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.”
Reported in "The Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection" By Wystan Hugh Auden, Louis Kronenberger (1981)
Suzanne Curchod , auch Madame Necker, war eine Schriftstellerin und bedeutende Pariser Salonnière der Aufklärung. Sie war Ehefrau des französisch-schweizerischen Bankiers und Politikers Jacques Necker und Mutter der Schriftstellerin Germaine de Staël. Wikipedia
“Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.”
Reported in "The Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection" By Wystan Hugh Auden, Louis Kronenberger (1981)
Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 197.
“It is never permissible to say, I say.”
Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 80.
“Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.”
Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 195.
“Romance is the poetry of literature.”
Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 676.
“How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.”
Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 229.