Logo
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and h

People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? – Mary Baker Eddy

Category:
Civilization

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

Category:
Civilization

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

Category:
Civilization

Civilization is the lambs skin in which barbarism masquerades. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didnt learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didnt learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didnt die; so, let us all be thankful. – Buddha

Category:
Gratitude

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the countrys cause. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Hope

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. – James Martineau

Category:
Poetry

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that its all in the story. – Robert Redford

Category:
Technology