Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.
Suzanne Curchod
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Suzanne Curchod
Age: 55 †
Born: 1739
Born: May 6
Died: 1794
Died: May 15
Salonnière
Socialite
Writer
Crassier VD
Louise-Suzanne Necker
Wit
Sign
Show
Often
Others
Shows
More quotes by Suzanne Curchod
Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.
Suzanne Curchod
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.
Suzanne Curchod
Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.
Suzanne Curchod
Love is the pass-key to the heart.
Suzanne Curchod
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.
Suzanne Curchod
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
Suzanne Curchod
Elegance is exquisite polish.
Suzanne Curchod
Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.
Suzanne Curchod
The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
Suzanne Curchod
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
Suzanne Curchod
It is never permissible to say, I say.
Suzanne Curchod
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
Suzanne Curchod
How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.
Suzanne Curchod
Romance is the poetry of literature.
Suzanne Curchod
Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.
Suzanne Curchod
Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.
Suzanne Curchod
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.
Suzanne Curchod
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
Suzanne Curchod
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
Suzanne Curchod
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
Suzanne Curchod