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There are few husbands whom the wife can not win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Men are so accustomed to lie, that one can not take too many precautions before trusting them — if they are to be trusted at all.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them: hence it comes that they often meet with devils.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
I confess I should be glad if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to me: in that case, I should often find matter for rejoicing.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Gold adulterated one thing only—the human heart.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Tears may be dried up, but the heart never.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)