Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Jean de La Fontaine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 8, 1621 - April 13, 1695

Topics

LoveTruthPowerPeopleWillVirtue

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

Jim McKay

WorkArtPeopleDoubtYouGoal

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

Joe Johnston

LoveOfficeBoxFilmWellMake

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

Andrew McCarthy

EvilThinkDoing The Right ThingBad

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

Medgar Evers

ManYouIdea

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

Max Eastman

MindChoiceUnionsEmotionPriest

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Sienna Miller

ChangeLiveAgeTimeCultureSmart

There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.

Lucy Alibar

GeniusI CanGoNowSheSee

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

Jay Asher

PeopleWritingBookYouWriteRead

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.

Jon Ronson

GreatSocial MediaPeopleVoiceHow

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Joseph Lewis

AgeTimeOpinionGeniusIgnorant

If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.

Bruce Oldfield

GoodHairSomeoneYouLookSkin

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

William Herschel

PurposeMoreHumanHighSeemSacred

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