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Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Love is rather the god of sensation than of sensibility.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Glances are the first billets-doux of love.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
It is the opinion of men that makes the reputation of women.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred: it is so many more triumphs for her.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Vows are the false money that pays for the sacrifices of love.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Cupid is a traitor who scratches, even when one only plays with him.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare, but those which escape us unthinkingly.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
When women have passed thirty, the first thing they forget is their age; when they have attained forty, they have entirely lost the remembrance of it.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)