Short-Quotes

Short-Quotes

Short Quotes - Author Jose Bergamin

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.