Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, also known as Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister, and of the Jacobin club...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 April 1741
CountryFrance
wasted
The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.
french-writer laughed surely
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
spices courtship discord
A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
deceiving lost charlatans
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
novelty
Change, change,--we all covet change.
appetite composed dinners great society
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
funny-friend pay three
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
foolish fools-and-foolishness
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.