Alfred Capus quotes

Alfred Capus quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.”
-- Alfred Capus

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“Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.”
-- Alfred Capus

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“There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.”
-- Alfred Capus

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“To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.”
-- Alfred Capus

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“The best memories are those which we have forgotten.”
-- Alfred Capus

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“Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.”
-- Alfred Capus

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“A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.”
-- Alfred Capus

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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
“The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.”
“Death should take more care with his paperwork.”
“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
“It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.”
“He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.”
“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
“The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.”
“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”

Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.

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