Jacques Cazotte quotes

Jacques Cazotte quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.”
-- Jacques Cazotte

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“Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.”
“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.”

Source : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VIII, Chapter 9, 1735.
“Be very careful about your care. Don't use it for sexual high jinks. It can get ugly - trust me. Also be careful when flushing.”
“All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.”
“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
“Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.”
“None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.”
“Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.”
“To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.”
“Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.”

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