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Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Attributed
How many people assume boldly the mask of virtue!
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The head, however strong it may be, can accomplish nothing against the heart.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
A jealous man always finds more than he looks for.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Women detest a jealous man whom they do not love, but it angers them when a man they do love is not jealous at times.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Women should despise slander, and fear to provoke it.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
How delightful it would be to love if one loved always! But alas! there are no eternal loves.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Love is — I know not what; which comes — I know not whence; which is formed — I know not how; which enchants — I know not by what; and which ends — I know not when or why.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)