Quotes From "The Queens Necklace" By Antal Szerb

1
The French by their nature had a permanent hunger for sensation. This was even more true of the eighteenth century, of which that considerable expert Victor du Bled remarked that no other age was ever so bored. Antal Szerb
2
It is not the business of a Queen to be human. Antal Szerb
3
If you spent time thinking about the future, you wouldn't be a true adventurer. An adventure is something that happens from one moment to the next; in which there is no yesterday and no tomorrow. Everything else is just petty bourgeois. Antal Szerb