The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Fénélon

2 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Il embellit tout ce qu'il touche, He adorns all that he touches.— filed under Character
Son. On Education. Nov. 24, 1749. Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse, -in short, as any part of his being which is at least subjected to the action of the will.— filed under Style
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