Antoine Rivarol Quotes

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

The world is governed by love,--self-love.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.