Quote #19
Politeness is organized indifference.
More from Paul Valery
- The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
- Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.
- God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely.
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
- A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
- Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
- A good poet is of no more use to his country than a good petanque player.