Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Ninon de L'Enclos
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Old age is a woman's hell.
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
The secret known to two is no longer a secret.
Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.
I hold those wise who know how to be happy.
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.
If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.
Glances are the first billets-doux of love.
Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.
It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them
Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.
The less heart, the more comfort.
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.
There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.
Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.
Firmness is great; persistency is greater.
Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!
There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.
Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.
Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.
The passions do not die out; they burn out.
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.
Inconstancy is the child of satiety.
Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.
The loss of friends is a tax on age!
There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.
What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.
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