Logo
Quote by Georges Bernanos
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surro

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. – Georges Bernanos

Other quotes by Georges Bernanos

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Society
Author
Georges Bernanos
Read Quote

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Masses
Author
Georges Bernanos
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Youth
category

Im trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. – Erma Bombeck

Category:
Youth

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Ecclesiastes 11:9 – Bible

Category:
Youth

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Youth

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. – Natalie Clifford Barney

Category:
Youth

Random Quotes

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha

Category:
Future

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Category:
Truth

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Philosophical

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. – Jerome Lawrence

Category:
Psychology