Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Louise Colet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French poet Louise Colet.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Louise Colet

Louise Colet, born Louise Revoil de Servannes, was a French poet and writer.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.
Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. — © Louise Colet
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.
Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.
The laws of decency enforce themselves.
You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.
Coquetry is the art of successful deception.
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