Skip to content

Quotes from A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness — Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis

1746–1830 France

← All quotes by Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis

4 quotes

Men call physicians only when they suffer; women, when they are merely afflicted with ennui.

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

If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of others.

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

Homeliness is the best guardian of a young girl's virtue.

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

To weep is not always to suffer.

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

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.