Quote

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Motive
Abuse
Hear
Talk
Even
Much
Like
Charmed
People
Motives

More quotes by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Image
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
. . . 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.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
It is the fine rain that soaks us through.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
The heart has no wrinkles.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
[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.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
. . .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.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
It is freezing fit to split a stone.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
if I inflict wounds, I heal them.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
... truth ... carries authority with it while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
I pity those who have no taste for reading.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Image
We are never satisfied with having done well and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne