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Madeleine de Scudéry on Mother's Day

1607–1701 France

← All quotes by Madeleine de Scudéry

3 quotes

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.

Attributed

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

How delightful it would be to love if one loved always! But alas! there are no eternal loves.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Madeleine de Scudéry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.