Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) military and political leader
(Autumn 1792) [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 419]
Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 1. Human Nature
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) military and political leader
(Autumn 1792) [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 419]
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”
Herbert M. Shelton (1895–1985) American medical writer
“One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.”
Stendhal (1783–1842) French writer
On peut tout acquérir dans la solitude, hormis du caractère.
Fragments
De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)
“One can survive everything nowadays except death.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
" Oscariana http://books.google.com/books?id=2otbAAAAMAAJ&q="One+can+survive+everything+nowadays+except+death"&pg=PA65#v=onepage" (1907)
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Lord Goring, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“You can take everything from me except the freedom to look up at the sky occasionally.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Ólafur
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
Phillip Guston (1913–1980) American artist
1961 - 1980 <br class="br">Source: 'It's About Freedom' - as quoted as last lign in 'It's About Freedom, Philip Guston's Late Works in the Schirn'; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 11/6/2013 – 2/2/2014 http://db-artmag.com/en/78/on-view/its-about-freedom-philip-gustons-late-works-in-the-schirn/
“Everything was lost except happiness.”
Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter
Attributed