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Alphonse Daudet Quotes

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

Alphonse Daudet
Hatred, Anger Management, Weak
Alphonse Daudet, George Burnham Ives, Jane Minot Sedgwick, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Olive Edward Palmer (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Alphonse Daudet
Children, Eye, People

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

Alphonse Daudet
Book, Imagination, Framework
Alphonse Daudet (2018). “In the Land of Pain”, p.17, Random House

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

Alphonse Daudet
Suffering, Matter, Preventing
"The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

Hate is the wrath of the weak.

Alphonse Daudet
Hate, Wrath, Weak

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

Alphonse Daudet
Children, People, Use

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.

Alphonse Daudet
Anomalies, Promptness, Falsehood

Music is another planet.

Alphonse Daudet
Music, Planets, Music Is
Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Léon Daudet (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”

The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation.

Alphonse Daudet
Death, Clever, Fall
"The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

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