Top 12 Quotes by Louise Colet

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

Heart, Imagination

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

Half, Ill

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Men, Doubt, Devotion

"Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 519), 1886.

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

Mirrors, Sometimes, Bliss

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

Art, Successful, Flirting

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

Law, Decency

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

Memories, Past, People

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.

Pain, Foolish, Reasonable

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

Manners, Discord

"Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 108), 1886.

Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!

Enthusiasm, Increase, Decrease

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

Art, Successful, Deception

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

Greatness, Pedestal, Dimensions

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