14 quotes
Anybody's applause is better than nobody’s.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
There are some moments, the hues of which are like those on the wing of a butterfly — a touch brushes them away.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
A woman only can understand a woman; and it is pleasant to be understood sometimes.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
A sweet smile and a soft word have usually their desired effect.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
All profound truths startle you in their first announcement.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours ; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Distrust is an acquired feeling — we never doubt till we have been deceived ...
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element — the one by which all the others are swayed.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Who knows how many links we may have to ascend in the vast cycle of worlds around, ere we arrive at the one which is knowledge — where we may look before, and after, and judge of the whole ? How many stages of probation may we yet have to pass !
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Voiture belonged to a race of poets essentially French, who sacrificed to the Graces instead of the Muses; to whom Cupid, with his wings and arrows, was the ideal of love, and whose art of poetry consisted in epigram, tournure, readiness, and facility.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Time passed as time ever does when passed monotonously, that is, with a degree of rapidity which only astonishes us when it is recalled to mind by some chance circumstance. Time should he reckoned by events, not hours ; the heart is its truest time-piece, at least as concerns ourselves.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
The history of a minute — why, it would give a bird's-eye view of every possible variety in human existence. Wonderful the many events that are happening together — life and death — joy and sorrow— the great and the mean — the common and the rare — good and evil — are all in the record of that brief segment of time.
Francesca Carrara (1834)
Full quote: Truly, society is like a large piece of frozen water ; there are the rough places to be shunned, the very slippery ones all ready for a fall, and the holes which seem made expressly to drown you. All that can be done is to glide lightly over them. Skating well is the great art of social life.
Francesca Carrara (1834)