Logo
Quote by Georges Bernanos
What does the truth matter? Havent we mothers all given our sons a

What does the truth matter? Havent we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! – Georges Bernanos

Other quotes by Georges Bernanos

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Rights
Author
Georges Bernanos
Read Quote

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Peace
Author
Georges Bernanos
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Deception/Lying
category

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. – Hilaire Belloc

Category:
Deception/Lying

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors. – Arabic Proverb

Category:
Deception/Lying

Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods. – English Proverb

Category:
Deception/Lying

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it – Lyman Beecher

Category:
Deception/Lying

Random Quotes

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. – Louis D. Brandeis

Category:
Freedom

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nations highways. – Dennis Miller

Category:
parenting

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Category:
Hypocrisy

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. Im a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation. – Katherine Jenkins

Category:
Age