Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!Collection: Art
The heart never becomes wrinkled.Collection: Heart
[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.Collection: Fancy
Death makes us all equal.Collection: Equal
Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.Collection: Enemy
It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love.Collection: Yesterday
The heart has no wrinkles.Collection: Love
Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.Collection: Coffee
winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.Collection: Spring
There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.Collection: Doe
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.Collection: Pain
The world has no long injustices.Collection: Long
if I inflict wounds, I heal them.Collection: Repentance
Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other sideCollection: Opportunity
There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.Collection: Beauty
When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.Collection: God
In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.Collection: Truth
We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.Collection: Noise
It is freezing fit to split a stone.Collection: Winter
. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.Collection: Today
I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.Collection: Writing
Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.Collection: Stars