Remy de Gourmont Men Quotations

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.