Top 41 Quotes & Sayings by Suzanne Curchod

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Suzanne Curchod.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Suzanne Curchod was a French-Swiss salonist and writer. She hosted one of the most celebrated salons of the Ancien Régime. She also led the development of the Hospice de Charité, a model small hospital in Paris that still exists today as the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital. She was the wife of French finance minister Jacques Necker, and is often referenced in historical documents as Madame Necker.

French - Writer | 1737 - May 6, 1794

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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.

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

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.

Suzanne Curchod

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.

Suzanne Curchod

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

Suzanne Curchod

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.

Suzanne Curchod

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Suzanne Curchod

Make your best thoughts into action.

Suzanne Curchod

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.

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

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

Suzanne Curchod

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.

Suzanne Curchod

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

Suzanne Curchod

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Suzanne Curchod

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

Suzanne Curchod

Elegance is exquisite polish.

Suzanne Curchod

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

Suzanne Curchod

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.

Suzanne Curchod

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.

Suzanne Curchod

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.

Suzanne Curchod

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

Suzanne Curchod

The more heart, the more sorrow.

Suzanne Curchod

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

Suzanne Curchod

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Suzanne Curchod

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.