Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

- Paul Bourget

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

- Paul Bourget

There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you…

- Paul Bourget

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltati…

- Paul Bourget

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

- Paul Bourget

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

- Paul Bourget

I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

- Paul Bourget

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

- Paul Bourget

Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant obse…

- Paul Bourget