Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Alain-Rene Lesage

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Alain-Rene Lesage.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735).

French - Novelist | May 6, 1668 - November 17, 1747

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Evil tongues never want a whet.

Alain-Rene Lesage

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Alain-Rene Lesage

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Alain-Rene Lesage

Plain as a pike-staff.

Alain-Rene Lesage

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

Alain-Rene Lesage

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

Alain-Rene Lesage

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

Alain-Rene Lesage

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Alain-Rene Lesage

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Alain-Rene Lesage

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

Alain-Rene Lesage

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

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