
"Rien du tout, ou la conséquence" ("Nothing, or the Consequence"), in A Perfect Vacuum (1971), tr. Michael Kandel (1978)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
"Rien du tout, ou la conséquence" ("Nothing, or the Consequence"), in A Perfect Vacuum (1971), tr. Michael Kandel (1978)
Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 146
“Elegance should be left to shoemakers and tailors”
Eleganz sei die Sache der Schuster und Schneider
reported by [Arnold Berliner, Curt Thesing, Die Naturwissenschaften, Springer-Verlag, 1946, 36]
also reported by [Albert Einstein, translation by Robert W. Lawson, Relativity, Plain Label Books, 1921, 1-603-03164-2, preface]
Attributed
“I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.”
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011 film)”
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Interviewed in Vogue, April 1985
“A man must pretend not to be a writer.”
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
Misattributed
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979 TV series)”
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