Suzanne Curchod
Make your best thoughts into action.Collection: Action
Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.Collection: Money
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.Collection: Character
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.Collection: Forgiveness
The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.Collection: Age
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.Collection: Writing
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.Collection: Order
Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.Collection: Love
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.Collection: Wise
Elegance is exquisite polish.Collection: Elegance
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.Collection: Heart
Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.Collection: Guilt
The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.Collection: Thinking
Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.Collection: Probity
The more heart, the more sorrow.Collection: Heart
Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.Collection: Perseverance
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.Collection: Giving
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.Collection: Want
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.Collection: Heart
Love is the pass-key to the heart.Collection: Love
The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.Collection: Action
You may be more prodigal of time than of money.Collection: Time
How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.Collection: Prejudice
It is never permissible to say, I say.Collection: Egotism
Dignity and love do not blend.Collection: And Love
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.Collection: Bears
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.Collection: Years
Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.Collection: Long
That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.Collection: Retirement
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.Collection: Beautiful
Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.Collection: Obligation
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.Collection: Love
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.Collection: Death
Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.Collection: Hands
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.Collection: Opinion
Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.Collection: Sympathy
Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.Collection: Atmosphere
Romance is the poetry of literature.Collection: Romance
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.Collection: Book
Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.Collection: Ambition
Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.Collection: Vanity